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Dutch painter (1821–1899) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Bles (1821, The Hague – 1899, The Hague), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
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David Bles was born to a merchant I. Bles.[1]
According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, at the age of thirteen Bles was talented enough to be accepted at the Hague Academy.[2] 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.[2] 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.[2] In 1850-60, his paintings were exhibited in various European countries. In 1859, he was elected an honorary associate of the Imperial Academy of Arts.[1]
He painted scenes from the history of Dutch painting and is best known for portraits and genre paintings.[2]
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