Frans Hals
Noun
Meaning
Dutch portrait and genre painter who endowed his portraits with vitality and humor (1580?-1666)
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Centuries later Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: 'What a joy it is to see a Frans Hals, how different it is from the paintings – so many of them – where everything is carefully smoothed out in the same manner.'
A primary collection of his work is displayed in the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem.
As biographer Seymour Slive has pointed out, older stories of Frans Hals abusing his first wife were confused with another Haarlem resident of the same name.
Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 quote: "Of the master's numerous family members only Frans Hals the Younger (1618 1669) is notable, with paintings of cottages and poultry.
Frans Hals painted the company three times.
Frans Hals was a devoted father, and they went on to have eight children.