Daniël de Blieck (1610-1673)
• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and architect, who specialised in architectural paintings.
• It is presumed that he was a pupil of architectural painter Dirck van Delen.
• He became a member of the Middelburg Guild of Saint Luke in 1647–1648 as an architect.
• He was deacon of the Guild in 1664–1665 and 1668.
• He resided in England from 1658 to 1661.
• Adriaen van de Graeff was his pupil in 1665.
• Daniël de Blieck principally painted architectural studies but is also known for some portraits.
• Between 1655 and 1657 he kept a sketch book in which he drew 82 architectural drawings, and these are more realistic in style.
• Daniël de Blieck painted in 1663 a history scene representing Alexander Slaying Cleitus.
• The central story of the brutal murder by Alexander the Great of his General, Cleitus, is made secondary to the sweeping arches and soaring colonnades of this architectural fantasy.
• The scene of the murder is set in classical architecture which is reminiscent of Classical Rome.
