Koningin Juliana van Oranje-Nassauartist • painterDen Haag 1909-2004 Soestdijk

Queen Juliana was not actively involved in the visual arts, but she was interested in it, as well as in drama and literature. As a young girl, from the age of ten, she was taught painting and art history by Tjieke Roelofs-Bleckmann, the wife of painter Albert Roelofs. At the time, he was teaching Juliana's mother, Queen Wilhelmina. Painting was an incidental affair for Juliana; she accompanied her mother on various trips and they sometimes painted together. But unlike for Wilhelmina, painting was not a serious activity for Juliana that formed a relaxing counterbalance to the heavy government task that rested on her shoulders.