Haarlem
Proper noun
Meaning
A municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
A city and capital of North Holland, Netherlands.
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According to the Haarlem archives, a schutterstuk that Hals started in Amsterdam was finished by Pieter Codde because Hals refused to paint in Amsterdam, insisting that the militiamen come to Haarlem to sit for their portraits.
As captain of Director at the Battle of Camperdown on 11 October, Bligh engaged three Dutch vessels: Haarlem, Alkmaar and Vrijheid.
Earliest known Haarlem printer Between 1483 and 1486, Jacob Bellaert worked in Haarlem.
Haarlem, Gouda, and Delft were all cities with early printing presses.
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.