Frans Hals

Netherlands, 1581 - 1666
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Frans Hals oil paintings
Willem Croes (detail)
Frans Hals
Item ID:25561
Andries van der Horn
Frans Hals
Item ID:25562
Portrait of a Man
Frans Hals
Item ID:25563
Yonker Ramp and his Sweetheart
Frans Hals
Item ID:25564
Samuel Ampzing
Frans Hals
Item ID:25565
Andries van der Horn II
Frans Hals
Item ID:25566
Maria Pietersdochter Olycan
Frans Hals
Item ID:25567
Pieter van den Broecke
Frans Hals
Item ID:25568
The Laughing Cavalier
Frans Hals
Item ID:25569
Singing Boy with a Flute
Frans Hals
Item ID:25570
The Merry Drinker
Frans Hals
Item ID:25572
A Family Group in a Landscape
Frans Hals
Item ID:25573
The Gypsy Girl
Frans Hals
Item ID:25575
Jester with a Lute
Frans Hals
Item ID:25577
Portrait of a Young Man
Frans Hals
Item ID:25578
Anetta Hanemans
Frans Hals
Item ID:35680
Anna Van Der Aar
Frans Hals
Item ID:35681
Boy Playing A Violin
Frans Hals
Item ID:35686
Boy with a Skull
Frans Hals
Item ID:35687
Buffoon Playing a Lute
Frans Hals
Item ID:35688
Catharina Both Van Der Eern
Frans Hals
Item ID:35689
Catharina Hooft with her Nurse
Frans Hals
Item ID:35690
Cornelia Claesdr Vooght
Frans Hals
Item ID:35692
Family Group In A Landscape
Frans Hals
Item ID:35693
Family Group In A Landscape II
Frans Hals
Item ID:35694
Family Portrait in a Landscape
Frans Hals
Item ID:35695
Fisher Boy
Frans Hals
Item ID:35696
Fisher Girl
Frans Hals
Item ID:35697
Frans Post
Frans Hals
Item ID:35698
Group of Children
Frans Hals
Item ID:35699
Gypsy Girl
Frans Hals
Item ID:35700
Harmen Peasants At A Wedding Feast
Frans Hals
Item ID:35701
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Frans Hals (c. 1580 - 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for portraiture. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also instrumental in the evolution of 17th century group portraiture. Hals was born in 1580 or 1581, in Antwerp. Like many, Hals' family fled during the Fall of Antwerp (1584-1585) from the Spanish Netherlands to Haarlem, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Hals studied under another Flemish emigre, Karel van Mander (1548-1606), whose Mannerist influence, however, is not noticeably visible in his work. At the age of 27, he became a member of the city's painter's corporation, the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke, and he started to earn money as an art restorer for the city council. He worked on their large art collection that Karel van Mander had described in his book The Painting-Book (Middle Dutch: Het Schilder-Boeck), published in 1604. The most notable of these were the works of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Jan van Scorel and Jan Mostaert, that hung in de St. Jans kerk in Haarlem. The restoration work was paid for by the city of Haarlem, since all religious art was confiscated after the iconoclasm, but the entire collection of paintings was not formally possessed by the city council until 1625, after the city fathers had decided which paintings were suitable for the city hall. The remaining art that was considered too "Roman Catholic" was sold to Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, a fellow guild member, on the grounds that he remove it from the city. It was under these circumstances that Hals began his career in portraiture, since the market for religious themes had disappeared.

The earliest known example of Hals' own art is the 1611, Jacobus Zaffius. His 'breakthrough' came in 1616, with the life-size group portrait, The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company. His most famous portrait today is the one he made in 1649 of Rene Descartes.


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