Wally Moes

Wilhelmina Walburga "Wally" Moes (16 October 1856 – 6 November 1918) was a Dutch genre painter and writer. She specialized in pictures of children.

Biography Moes was born in Amsterdam where she attended the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and followed lessons under August Allebé in the "ladies' class", together with the pupils Arina Hugenholtz, Alida Loder and Antoinette Zimmerman. In 1878 she left with a few other pupils after their petition to dismiss a few professors was refused.

In 1898 she moved to Laren where she lived in Hotel Hamdorff, a meeting place for artists. In 1908 she had to move out due to arthritis and gave up painting and began to write stories, living in a converted home that Veth had helped her to set up in Laren. Her decades of work specializing in everyday scenes of Laren's people earned her a place in the town's history: A local prize for volunteer work is named after her.

Moes died in Laren and Jan Veth read her eulogy. Her autobiography wasn't published until 1961.

Selected paintings