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Frans Hals the Elder ( UK: / hæls /, [1] US: / hɑːls, hælz, hɑːlz /, [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 ...
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.
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 (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 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.
Frans Hals was a major painter of the Dutch Golden Age and his creative energy and vivacious character depiction made his fame.
He is best known for portraits of the citizens of Haarlem, to which he brought an incisive characterisation and an unparalleled sense of animation. He also painted group portraits, depicting family groups, members of the civic guard and regents of Haarlem almshouses. These are generally regarded as his masterpieces.
