![]() ![]() His pictures illustrate the various strata of society: banquets or meetings of officers, guildsmen, local councilmen from mayors to clerks, itinerant players and singers, gentlemen, fishwives, and tavern heroes. He was a Dutch Golden Age painter who practiced an intimate realism with a radically free approach. He also painted large group portraits for local civic guards and for the regents of local hospitals. 1655, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, USA. Hals is best known for his portraits, mainly of wealthy citizens such as Pieter van den Broecke and Isaac Massa, whom he painted three times. Below, you can see a portrait of Frans Post, presumably aged 43, painted by Frans Hals, a fellow Haarlem painter and one of the most prominent portraitists of Dutch Golden Age. One of fifteen extant copies of a lost self-portrait made by Hals in the late 1640s, this painting beautifully. Hals studied under Flemish émigré Karel van Mander, whose Mannerist influence, however, is barely noticeable in Hals' work. After Frans Hals (Dutch, about 1581-1666). This is a gorgeous, vintage art print by Dutch artist Frans Hals (1580-1666) called La Bohemienne. Like many, Hals' parents fled during the Fall of Antwerp (1584–1585) from the south to Haarlem in the new Dutch Republic in the north, where he lived for the remainder of his life. 1542–1610) and his second wife Adriaentje van Geertenryck. He was Flemish by birth his parents left Antwerp after the city was captured by the Spaniards. Hals was born in 1582 or 1583 in Antwerp, then in the Spanish Netherlands, as the son of cloth merchant Franchois Fransz Hals van Mechelen (c. ![]() Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork. He is known for his loose painterly brushwork, and helping introduce a lively style of painting to Dutch art. Artist: Frans Hals Title: Portrait of a Man Date: 1634 Culture: Dutch/Flemish Medium: Oil on oak panel Dimensions: 73.3 x 56.2 cm (28-7/8 x 22-1/8 in.). 1582 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter who lived and worked in Haarlem. Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem. ![]() Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals, along with Rembrandt and Vermeer, is considered to be one of the most prominent painters of the Dutch Baroque era. ![]()
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