David Bles
(1821 – The Hague - 1899)
“Oranje Nassau Royalists”, 1871
Oil on panel: 40 x 56 cm
Signed and dated ‘David Bles ’71’ lower right
with a poem on the verso
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Notes
David Joseph Bles was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He received his first training at the drawing academy in The Hague and in the studio of Cornelis Kruseman from 1838 to 1841. In the following years he studied under Joseph Robert-Fleury in Paris, than returning to The Hague. He specialized in the playful depiction of the well-to-do middle classes in their domestic settings. Bles catches the atmosphere of intimate scenes like no other.
Provenance
- Collection C.W. van Blijenburgh, Hilversum.
- Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam, 1999.
- Private collection, The Netherlands
- Thence by descent.
Exhibitions
- Singer Laren, ‘Kunstbezit rondom Laren’, 1958
- Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, ‘Romantische School’.
- Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, ‘Een verzameling schilderijen’, 1980, cat. no. 9