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Frans Hals was a Dutch painter who lived from 1580 to 1666 and became one of the most celebrated portrait artists of his era. He is remembered for his innovative approach to painting that captured the personality and vitality of his subjects in ways that influenced portrait painting for centuries to come.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1584
- Died
- 1666
- Works
- 18
Top works
- The masterpieces of Frans Hals, the elder (1580-1666)
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- Les régents et des régentes de l'hospice e vieillards
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Frans Hals, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
Frans Hals the Elder ( UK: /hæls/, US: /hɑːls, hælz, hɑːlz/; 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 their homes with works of art. Hals was highly sought after by wealthy burgher commissioners of individual, married-couple, family, and institutional-group portraits. He also painted tronies for the general market.
There were two quite distinct schools of portraiture in 17th-century Haarlem: the neat (represented, for example, by Verspronck); and a looser, more painterly style at which Frans Hals excelled. Some of Hals's portrait work is characterised by a subdued palette, reflecting the politely serious tones of his fashionable clients' wardrobe. In contrast, the personalities he paints are full of life, typically with a friendly glint in the eye or the glimmer of a smile on the lips.