Painter from the Northern Netherlands (c. 1582–1666)
Frans Hals
Copy of a Self-portrait by Hals
Born
c. 1582
Antwerp, Flanders, Spanish Netherlands
Died
26 August 1666(1666-08-26) (aged 83–84)
Haarlem, Dutch Republic
Nationality
Dutch
Notable work
The Gypsy Girl (1628) Laughing Cavalier (1624) Laughing Boy (c. 1625)
Signature
Frans Hals the Elder (UK: /hæls/,[1]US: /hɑːls,hælz,hɑːlz/,[2][3][4]Dutch:[frɑnsˈɦɑls]; c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of tronies, who lived and worked in Haarlem.
Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture. He is known for his loose, painterly brushwork.
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^"Hals". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^"Hals" Archived 12 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
FransHals the Elder (UK: /hæls/, US: /hɑːls, hælz, hɑːlz/, Dutch: [frɑnsˈɦɑls]; c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of...
The FransHals Museum (formerly Stedelijk Museum van Haarlem) is a museum in the North Holland city of Haarlem, the Netherlands, founded in 1862, known...
forgotten after her death. Her entire oeuvre came to be attributed to FransHals or to her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer. In 1893, she was rediscovered...
in 1974 FransHals catalogue raisonné, 1989 – the list of 145 paintings attributed as autograph by Claus Grimm in 1989 "When is a Hals a Hals? | Legion...
FransHals the Younger (1618, Haarlem – 1669, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken he was the son of the painter Frans Hals...
Laughing Cavalier (1624) is a portrait by the Dutch Golden Age painter FransHals in the Wallace Collection in London. It was described by art historian...
Cuyp, Landscape with Shepherd and Herd FransHals, Tielemann Roostermann FransHals, Portrait of a Man FransHals, Portrait of a Woman Hans de Jode, Muleteer...
the years 1200–2000, among which are some masterpieces by Rembrandt, FransHals, and Johannes Vermeer. The museum also has a small Asian collection, which...
example can be seen in the Portrait of a Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat by FransHals. Soul patches came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, as a style of...
Family Portrait (Hals, four persons), a 1635 painting by FransHals Family Portrait (Hals, five persons), a 1648 painting by FransHals Family Portrait...
larger compositions was also evident in the work of FransHals, a Haarlem painter. Some of FransHals's tronies are his best-known works such as the Gypsy...
founder in Haarlem and Weert. He is best known today for his portraits by FransHals, though he is remembered locally for his Hofje van Willem Heythuijsen...
many now considered among the greatest of the period, such as Vermeer, FransHals and Rembrandt in his last years, had considerable problems earning a living...
Heythuijsen was a cloth merchant born in Weert, a small city in Dutch Limburg. FransHals painted him several times, and one of these portraits hung in this hofje...
Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of FransHals as a portraitist. Born in Haarlem, Cornelis Corneliszoon was a pupil of...
Malle Babbe is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter FransHals, painted c. 1633-1635, and now in the Gemäldegalerie, in Berlin. The painting has...
Leyster may have been pupils of FransHals. Molenaer was born and died in Haarlem. He achieved a style close to Hals' early on in his career, but later...
(2013). FransHals: Eye to eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian. FransHals Museum. Grimm, C., Riehle, J., & Hals, F. (1990). FransHals: The complete...
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