from 1875 she received lessons from johannes warnardus bilders (1811-1890). they married in 1880, with bosboom and hendrik willem mesdag as witnesses. she was the same age as j. w. bilders's son, the landscape-painter gerard bilders, who had died in 1865. the couple settled in the rural village oosterbeek where she painted many landscapes. after the death of her husband, she returned to the hague.