Frans Hals the Elder (UK: / h æ l s /, [1] US: / h ɑː l s, h æ l z, h ɑː l z /; [2] [3] [4] 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 ...

Mar 15, 2025 · 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.

Frans Hals the Elder (/hɑːls/; Dutch: [ɦɑls]; c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art.

Aug 1, 2011 · 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.

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.

The Laughing Cavalier (1624) is a portrait by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals in the Wallace Collection in London. [1] It was described by art historian Seymour Slive as "one of the most brilliant of all Baroque portraits". [2] The title is an invention of the Victorian public and press, dating from its exhibition in the opening display at the Bethnal Green Museum in 1872–1875, …

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 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.

Son of Franchoys Hals, a cloth worker from Mechelen, and Adriana van Geertenryck of Antwerp, Frans Hals was probably born in Antwerp in about 1582 or 1583. Sometime after the fall of …

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.