{{Short description|Dutch painter (1821–1899)}}

thumb|David Jozef Bles [[File:David Josep Bles (1821-1899), Armoede en weelde (de familie H. Berniks), 1848, Olieverf op paneel.JPG|thumb|''Poverty and wealth'', 1848, collection Teylers Museum]]

'''David Bles''' (1821, The Hague – 1899, The Hague), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

==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.<ref name=RKD>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/9007 David Bles] in the RKD</ref> 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.<ref name=RKD/> 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.<ref name=RKD/> 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.<ref name=RKD/>

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== 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

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