Hilda Van Stockum Marlin - Artist Info

About Hilda Van Stockum Marlin

Name variants

Hilda Stockum, Hilda Van Stockum
  • Biography

    The following information was submitted in November of 2006 by her son John:

    Hilda Gerarda van Stockum was born in Rotterdam in 1908.  Her father, Abraham Jan van Stockum, was a naval officer and her mother, Olga Emily Boissevain, was the daughter of Charles Boissevain, a prominent Dutch newspaper editor.

    As a child, van Stockum grew up in Ireland and the Netherlands and traveled with her family to France, Switzerland, and the East Indies.  Constantly filling notebooks with stories and pictures, she wrote and illustrated a book for her younger brother, Willem, when she was five.

    In 1932, in Dublin, van Stockum married the roommate at Trinity College of her brother Willem (a medal-winning mathematician famed among time-t...

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