Tag: Frans Hals

Frans Hals – Singing Boy With Flute

Frans Hals – Two Boys Singing 1625

Frans Hals – The Rommel Pot Player 1618-22

Frans Hals – Peeckelhaering 1628-30

Frans Hals – Three Children with a Goat Cart 1620

Frans Hals – Catharina Hooft with her Nurse 1619-20

Frans Hals – The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company 1627

Frans Hals – Gypsy Girl 1628-30

Frans Hals – Malle Babbe 1630

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Click picture for a series of Frans Hals self-portraits

Wikipedia:

Frans Hals the Elder (/hɑːls/;^[1] Dutch: [ɦɑls]; c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter who lived and worked inHaarlem. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture.

Hals was born in 1582 or 1583 in Antwerp as the son of cloth merchant Franchois Fransz Hals van Mechelen (c.1542–1610) and his second wife Adriaentje van Geertenryck.^[2] Like many, Hals’ parents 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 Flemish émigré Karel van Mander,^[2][3] whose Mannerist influence, however, is barely noticeable in Hals’ work.

I’ve picked a selection of Hals’ portraits of the ‘not-so-noble’; I relate better to those folks. Enjoy!