Marike Bok


Marike Bok was a Dutch portrait painter.

Life and work

Bok studied at the Royal Art Academy in The Hague. Bok painted the Dutch Queen Beatrix twice. In 1995 she painted the Gentleman's Club. This painting is a group portrait of some well-known Dutch artists and politicians like Marcel van Dam, Harry Mulisch, Hans van Mierlo, Reinbert de Leeuw, Martin Veltman, Gerrit Komrij, Adriaan van Dis and André Spoor. In 2011 she painted former prime minister of the Netherlands Ruud Lubbers.
Marike Bok was often compared with classic Dutch painters like Frans Hals because of her technique and also because she was the only modern portrait painter who never worked from photographs and exactly painted like the old Dutch masters.

Gallery

Portraits by Marike Bok

Books

In 2016 Marike Bok suffered from a stroke that made painting in the last year before she deceased very difficult. In September 2017 the book Marike Bok was published. A biography of her life and work. the author is Diederiekje Bok.