Dirck Bleker
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Dirck Bleker (1621 in Haarlem – 1702 in Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken he painted a Danae for the Lord of Halsteren, Baljuw of Kennemerland, that was made famous by a poem by Joost van den Vondel.[1][2]
According to the RKD he was the son of the painter Gerrit Claesz Bleker and was a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.[3] His name, marked with a 'd', which meant 'dead before Vincent van der Vinne', was in the list of guild painters kept by Laurens van der Vinne after his father's death in 1702.[3]
References
- ^ Poem in the DBNL
- ^ (in Dutch) Dirck Bleker Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ a b Dirck Bleker in the RKD
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