Gerrit Claesz Bleker (1592, Haarlem – February 8, 1656, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
According to Houbraken in 1718, who repeated a list of names from Theodorus Schrevelius’s 1648 book upon Haarlem called Harlemias, he was a good landscape painter of Haarlem along taking into account Cornelis Vroom, son of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, “Joh. Jakobsz.”, who was in Italy for many years, “Nicol. Zuyker”, Salomon van Ruysdael, and Reyer van Blommendael.
According to the RKD he was a landscape painter of historical allegories who became a devotee of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke sometime previously 1643 and who complex became the researcher of Dirck Bleker (possibly his son), Pieter Adelaar, David Decker, and Paulus van der Goes. He was probably the pupil of Nicolaes Moeyaert.
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