David Bles
Biography
David Bles was born to a merchant I. Bles.{{sfn|Belyaev|2018|p=39}}
According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, at the age of thirteen Bles was talented enough to be accepted at the Hague Academy.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/9007 David Bles] in the RKD 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. 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.{{sfn|Belyaev|2018|p=39}}
He painted scenes from the history of Dutch painting and is best known for portraits and genre paintings.
References
{{reflist}}
Sources
- {{cite book
|last=Belyaev
|first=N. S.
|year=2018
|title=Honorary Free Associates of the Imperial Academy of Arts. Brief biographical guide
|url=http://pushkinskijdom.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Belyaev-Volnye-obshhniki-s-zamenoj-nemetskogo.pdf
|location=St Petersburg
|publisher=Russian Academy of Sciences
|page= 39
|isbn=978-5-336-00234-8
}}
External links
- {{Commons category-inline}}
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/david-joseph-bles/past-auction-results David Bles] on Artnet
{{Authority control (arts)}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bles, David}}
Category:19th-century Dutch painters