Indiatimes: 5 most iconic paintings by Frans Hals (apart from 'The Laughing Cavalier')
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Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder 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 tro…
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culture · Painter from the Northern Netherlands (c. 1582–1666) · painter · printmaker · architectural drafter · visual artist · also Frans Hals, Frans Halls, Franc Walls, Frankhalls, Frank Hals, Frans Hal
Born 1591 · Died 26 August 1666 · Q167654
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2024· 2 entries
Artnet: Frans Hals Is a Master of the ‘Fleeting Moment.’ Here Are Backstories Behind 5 Seminal Works
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Euronews: Frans Hals: Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum honours the Master of Laughter in new exhibition
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2023· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Frans Hals, a Dutch Golden Age Rebel
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THE WEEK: Frans Hals review: a celebration of an extraordinary portraitist
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2019· 1 entry
National Review: The Juicy, Joyous Work of Frans Hals
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2011· 1 entry
Smithsonian Magazine: Frans Hals and the Divided Self
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1989· 3 entries
And produced an update to his catalogue raisonné work in 2014
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Another authority on Hals, Claus Grimm, disagreed with Slive and published a shorter œuvre of 145 paintings in his Frans Hals
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(Stuttgart/Zürich; also translated into Dutch and English)
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1889· 1 entry
The portrait of Pieter van den Broecke was bid up to 4,420 francs, while in 1908 the National Gallery paid £25,000 for the large family group from the collection of Baron Talbot de Malahide
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1666· 1 entry
Died 1666-08-26.
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1591· 1 entry
Born 1591.
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