• Also known as Daniel Blok or Daniel von Block.
• Was a German Baroque painter.
• According to Houbraken he was the son of Marten Blok of Utrecht.
• He was sent to learn the art of painting portraits from Jakob Scherer in Gdańsk.
• He attracted the attention of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, for whom he painted portraits.
• He survived a fire in 1651 during the Thirty Years War and fled to Rostock, where he lived to the age of 80.
• His son Benjamin Block also became a court painter.
• According to the
RKD, Daniel Block worked in Schwerin, but he must have been active in Lübeck also.
