David Bles
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Artworks: 49
Known for portraits and genre paintings
David Bles, was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, at the age of thirteen Bles was talented enough to be accepted at the Hague Academy. He attended classes from 1834 to 1837 and from 1838 to 1841. He became a pupil of the painter Cornelis Kruseman and his nephew Jan Adam Kruseman. Bles then travelled to France to study with Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury in Paris. He remained in Paris until 1843 after which he settled in The Hague, though he was a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam between 1845 and 1899. He painted scenes from the history of Dutch painting and is best known for portraits and genre paintings.
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Master student
- Cornelis Kruseman Master
- Jan Adam Kruseman Master
- Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury Master
Artworks by this artist (49 total)
- Man reading a newspaper
- Fencing officer 1850
- Man in a chair 1851
- Robber awaitng his victim in an ambush 1846
- Gerard (II) ter Borch knighted by king Philip IV 1842
- Various figures 1842
- The Conversation c. 1850 - c. 1899
- Oostdam, a character from Jacob van Lennep’s Ferdinand Huyck 1888
- Women and children greeting a man outside their window
- Women’s heads
- Koffieuurtje 1831 - 1899
- Dame voor spiegel
- Woman in a chair
- Portrait of the artist Edouard Hamman
- Two monks playing chess
- Zittende oude dame 1852
- Man’s head
- Boy smoking
- Several separate scenes, man looking at an easel, girl with board game
- Cato Jordaan, a character from Jacob van Lennep’s Ferdinand Huyck 1887