Bles, Herri met de (1480-1550)

Flemish painter, active in Antwerp. He is generally identified with Herri Patinir, nephew of the painter Joachim Patinir, but identification of his work is more difficult. He seems to have specialized, like Joachim Patinir, in religious episodes where most of the panel is taken up with landscape and the characters are relegated to being tiny figures.

His work was known in Italy, where he was nicknamed ‘civetta’ from the owl with which he signed his paintings.