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Frans Hals the Elder (UK: / h æ l s /, US: / h ɑː l s, h æ l z, h ɑː l z /, Dutch: [frɑns ˈɦɑls]; c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem , a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate their homes with ...
Frans Hals is one of the most celebrated and prominent painters of the Dutch Golden Age, probably only second to Rembrandt or Vermeer. Although Hals enjoyed success during his lifetime, he was largely forgotten by the generations that followed.
The celebrated portraitist and genre painter Frans Hals has been placed second only to Rembrandt and, during the past hundred years, to Vermeer in the pantheon of great Dutch painters of the Golden Age.
Jun 6, 2024 · Frans Hals was a great 17th-century portraitist of the Dutch bourgeoisie of Haarlem, where he spent practically all his life. Hals evolved a technique that was close to Impressionism in its looseness, and he painted with increasing freedom as he grew older.
Hals was the first Master of the Dutch Golden Age of painting and his creative energy and vivacious character depictions played an incredibly important role in the evolution of portraiture as a genre.
Oct 2, 2023 · Oct. 2, 2023. What made people in the Dutch Golden Age laugh? The person who knew best was the painter Frans Hals. No other artist of the last 400 years painted quite as many smiles. Think of the...
The following is an incomplete list of paintings by Frans Hals that are generally accepted as autograph by the Frans Hals Museum and other sources. The list is more or less in order of creation, starting from around 1610 when Frans Hals began painting on his own.
Frans Hals was born in Antwerp, but worked for most of his life in Haarlem. He is best known for portraits of the citizens of Haarlem, to which he brought an incisive characterisation and an unparalleled sense of animation.
Nov 3, 2023 · The new retrospective of the Dutch painter Frans Hals at the National Gallery in London—the first major exhibition of his work since 1989—is a slightly nervous event for the most...
Frans Hals was one the most prolific and innovative genre painters and portraitists of the first half of the 17th century. His energetic, loose brushstrokes and laughing, sometimes even boisterous figures resulted in extremely lively and lifelike compositions.
