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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 ...
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.
View all 171 artworks. Frans Hals lived in the XVI – XVII cent., a remarkable figure of Dutch Baroque and Dutch Golden Age. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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...
Frans Hals (born 1581/85, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium]—died Aug. 29, 1666, Haarlem, Neth.) was a great 17th-century portraitist of the Dutch bourgeoisie of Haarlem, where he spent practically all his life.
Summary of Frans Hals. 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. Instead of conforming to contemporary notions of beauty or stereotypical appearances, Hals subjects have clearly ...
Master of the everyday. More stories. 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.
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