Gerrit Claesz Bleker was a Dutch Golden Age

Dutch Golden Age

The Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...

 painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken in 1718, who repeated a list of names from Theodorus Schrevelius

Theodorus Schrevelius

Theodorus Schrevelius was a Dutch Golden Age writer and poet.-Biography:He was born in Haarlem, and in 1591 went to study Greek and Latin at the University of Leiden. He became the assistant director of the Latin school in Haarlem in 1597, where he also started work on translating Ovid...

's 1648 book on Haarlem called Harlemias, he was a good landscape painter of Haarlem along with Cornelis Vroom

Cornelis Vroom

Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.-Biography:According to the RKD he was the son of the painter Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, the older brother of Frederick and Jacob, and the father of the painter Jacob Cornelisz Vroom. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St...

, son of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom was a Dutch Golden Age painter credited with being the founder of Dutch marine art or seascape painting. Beginning with the "birds-eye" viewpoint of earlier Netherlandish marine art, his later works show a view from lower down, and more realistic depiction of the seas...

, "Joh. Jakobsz.", who was in Italy for many years, "Nicol. Zuyker", Salomon van Ruysdael, and Reyer van Blommendael

Reyer van Blommendael

Reyer Jacobsz van Blommendael was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Haarlem.-Biography:He entered the Guild of that city in 1662, and was buried in the St. Bavochurch there where later his sister Risje was also buried...

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According to the RKD he was a landscape painter of historical allegories who became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke

Haarlem Guild of St. Luke

The Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke was first a Christian, and later a city Guild for a large number of trades falling under the patron saints Luke the Evangelist and Saint Eligius.-History:...

 sometime before 1643 and who later became the teacher of Dirck Bleker

Dirck Bleker

Dirck Bleker , 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....

 (possibly his son), Pieter Adelaar, David Decker, and Paulus van der Goes. He was probably the pupil of Nicolaes Moeyaert.