Marion van Nieuwpoort, painter of figurative expressionism, was born in 1950 in The Hague and died in 2008. She lived and worked here and was married to the painter of Realism Poen de Wijs. Marion graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in this royal city. In her work, initially watercolour and pastel technique, later oil paint and also lithography, she showed from her debut a predilection for human figure in a colourful environment.