David Bles
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.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Cornelis Kruseman Master
- Jan Adam Kruseman Master
- Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury Master
Artworks by this artist
- Going out 1861
- Young woman reading in a chair
- Head of a man with cap and beard 1847
- Sitting woman
- Woman leaning on a chair 1868
- Fencing officer 1850
- Monk’s head
- Woman in a chair
- Three men, among them Gavanon and Weimar
- Man in a chair 1851
- Velleman, a character from Jacob van Lennep’s Ferdinand Huyck 1888
- Velleman, a character from Jacob van Lennep’s Ferdinand Huyck 1888
- Man sitting in a chair, a book in his lap 1844
- Greeting at the door
- Man writing
- Huntsman looking at a clock 1849
- Oostdam, a character from Jacob van Lennep’s Ferdinand Huyck 1888
- Man reading a newspaper
- Robber awaitng his victim in an ambush 1846
- Several separate scenes, man looking at an easel, girl with board game