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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableAlthough we do not know exactly when (between 1585 and 1590) Frans Hals was born in Antwerp, we do know that he must have been one of the greatest portrait painters of his time. Even his contemporaries raved about the great accuracy and the very lively characterization of his figures. Already legendary during his lifetime, many streets in Holland, Belgium and Germany, as well as a EuroCity express train, are still named after him today.
The religious conflict between Spain and the Netherlands brought the family of the cloth merchant Franchoys Hals from Antwerp to Haarlem around 1590, where Frans Hals learned the craft of painting from 1603. Although he had been a member of the "Lukasgilde" - Haarlem's painters' guild - since 1610, Frans Hals was and remained a poor wretch throughout his life - for example, he had to bury his first wife in a pauper's grave. At that time one obviously did not get rich from paintings, moreover he had ten children to feed.
Instead of getting involved in historical or landscape painting, Frans Hals specialized in the commissioned jobs of his time, in portraits. He painted all the portraits of the Haarlem Shooting Guild, the "city militia" in those warlike times. When the portraits of the marksmen's guild were out of fashion, Hals switched to group pictures, but continued to capture famous contemporaries on canvas, such as the famous portrait of the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes or the painter and art collector Jan van de Capelle. His studies of unknown "little people", however, are even more impressive to today's viewers: Hals was not too ashamed to paint gypsy women or even alcoholics. With them he could also give free rein to his powers of observation instead of diplomatically restraining them.
Along with Anthonis van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals is counted among the "Big Three" of that era of portrait painting. When Hals was elected president of the Luke Guild in 1644, Rubens and van Dyck had died shortly before.
More than 200 paintings can be clearly attributed to Frans Hals, in addition to over a hundred others whose authorship is not certain - if only because Frans Hals trained five of his sons as painters as well. The portrait of René Descartes is, of course, just as undoubtedly his work as "The Officers' Banquet" and "The Rommelpot Player".
Although we do not know exactly when (between 1585 and 1590) Frans Hals was born in Antwerp, we do know that he must have been one of the greatest portrait painters of his time. Even his contemporaries raved about the great accuracy and the very lively characterization of his figures. Already legendary during his lifetime, many streets in Holland, Belgium and Germany, as well as a EuroCity express train, are still named after him today.
The religious conflict between Spain and the Netherlands brought the family of the cloth merchant Franchoys Hals from Antwerp to Haarlem around 1590, where Frans Hals learned the craft of painting from 1603. Although he had been a member of the "Lukasgilde" - Haarlem's painters' guild - since 1610, Frans Hals was and remained a poor wretch throughout his life - for example, he had to bury his first wife in a pauper's grave. At that time one obviously did not get rich from paintings, moreover he had ten children to feed.
Instead of getting involved in historical or landscape painting, Frans Hals specialized in the commissioned jobs of his time, in portraits. He painted all the portraits of the Haarlem Shooting Guild, the "city militia" in those warlike times. When the portraits of the marksmen's guild were out of fashion, Hals switched to group pictures, but continued to capture famous contemporaries on canvas, such as the famous portrait of the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes or the painter and art collector Jan van de Capelle. His studies of unknown "little people", however, are even more impressive to today's viewers: Hals was not too ashamed to paint gypsy women or even alcoholics. With them he could also give free rein to his powers of observation instead of diplomatically restraining them.
Along with Anthonis van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals is counted among the "Big Three" of that era of portrait painting. When Hals was elected president of the Luke Guild in 1644, Rubens and van Dyck had died shortly before.
More than 200 paintings can be clearly attributed to Frans Hals, in addition to over a hundred others whose authorship is not certain - if only because Frans Hals trained five of his sons as painters as well. The portrait of René Descartes is, of course, just as undoubtedly his work as "The Officers' Banquet" and "The Rommelpot Player".
_c1649_-_(MeisterDrucke-64596).jpg "Portrait of Rene Descartes by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Laughing Boy, c.1625 by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Laughing Cavalier, 1624, 1943 by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of Jasper Schade van Westrum by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Sara Andriesdochter Hessix, 1626 by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of an Unknown Man by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Pieter van den Broecke by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lucas de Clercq, Belgian Merchant of Weaving Products by Frans Hals")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-93798).jpg "The Gypsy Woman, c.1628-30 by Frans Hals")
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_1628_Dim_058_x_052_-_(MeisterDrucke-998878).jpg "The Gypsy Woman by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals")
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_c1649_(detail_of_32939)_-_(MeisterDrucke-93069).jpg "Portrait of Rene Descartes (detail) by Frans Hals")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-106845).jpg "Portrait of Rene Descartes by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Malle Bobbe, the Witch of Haarlem by Frans Hals")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-288875).jpg "Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Regents of the Hospice of the Elders of Haarlem. Painting by Frans Hals 1664. Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum Holland by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Banquet of the Officers of the Archers")
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.jpg "A Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Militia Company by Frans Hals")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-950885).jpg "The Lute Jester by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Singing Boy with Flute by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Merrymakers at Shrovetide by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Dutch Family by Frans Hals")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1080841).jpg "Malle Babbe (Witch of Haarlem) by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Banquet of the Officers of the Corps of Archers of Saint George of Haarlem. Painting by Franz Hals 1616. Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Holland by Frans Hals")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-139957).jpg "Laughing Child by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Lute Player, 1623 by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Militia Company of District XI under the Command of Captain Reynier Reael, Known as")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1083418).jpg "Three children with goat cart by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Regents of old men")
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.jpg "The Nurse with the Child by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Young Man Holding a Skull (Vanitas), 1627 by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Laughing Man with Jug, known as Peeckelhaeringh by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Laughing Child by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Young Man and Woman in an Inn by Frans Hals")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-35950).jpg "Self Portrait by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Regents of the Hospice Saint Elizabeth of Haarlem. Painting by Frans Hals (ca. 1580-1666) 1641 by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Couple, likely Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen. Around 1622 by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Copy of The Bohemian by Frans Hals by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Bust of a Laughing Boy with Wine Glass by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman with a Fan by Frans Hals")
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_c1626_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-907199).jpg "Young Man Holding a Skull (Vanitas) by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Militia Company of District XI under the Command of Captain Reynier Reael, Known as")
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.jpg "Portrait of Rene Descartes by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of an Elderly Man, Traditionally Called Heer Bodolphe by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Group portrait of officers and sub-alterns of the Civic Guard in Haarlem by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Merry Drinker by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Glove by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Young Man Playing a Flute by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Fisher Boy by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Man with the Slouch Hat by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Singing Boys by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "A Family Group in a Landscape by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Malle Babbe by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Rommel-Pot Player by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Merry Drinker by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Buffoon by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Ruff by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man, early 1650s by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Family Group in a Landscape by Frans Hals")
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_cir_-_(MeisterDrucke-1022237).jpg "Portrait of a Man in a Yellow-Gray Frock by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Meagre Company by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Banquet of the Officers of the Arquebusiers of St George by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Frans Hals")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-907145).jpg "Daniel van Aken Playing the Violin by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Saint John the Evangelist by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man with a Glove and Black Hair by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Frans Hals")
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_1626-28_-_(MeisterDrucke-804627).jpg "Portrait of a Young Man with Skull (Vanitas). 1626-28 by Frans Hals")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-907223).jpg "Peeckelhaering (The Jolly Reveller) by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a man, possibly Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Two Boys Making Music by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Bust of a Laughing Boy with Flute by Frans Hals")
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_enfant_et_sa_nourrice_(Catharina_Hooft_w_-_(MeisterDrucke-939322).jpg "Catharina Hooft with her Nurse by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Banquet of the Officers of the Corps of Saint Adrien of Haarlem by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Jester, after Frans Hals by Alfred Louis Bahuet")
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.jpg "Boy with a Lute by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Couple in a Landscape by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of Jasper Schade by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Man by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man, c.1660 by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "A Small Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Couple, Probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man in 17th Century Costume by Pieter de Mare")
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.jpg "Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "An Old Lady by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "A Young Man in a Large Hat by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Member of the Haarlem Civic Guard by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "Portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa, c.1635 by Frans Hals")
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.jpg "The Lute Player by Frans Hals")
.jpg "Portrait of a Jester with a Lute by Frans Hals")
.jpg "A Girl Singing by Frans Hals")
.jpg "The Merry Drinker by Frans Hals")