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Frans Hals
(1582/3 - 1666)
Dutch painter

He was born in Antwerp, the son of Flemish parents who moved to Holland after the city fell to the Spaniards in 1585. His parents had settled in Haarlem by 1591 and Frans Hals spent his long life there. Frans Hals was twice married, had at least ten childred, and was constantly in financial trouble. Houbraken says Frans Hals was `filled to the girls every evening', but there is no real foundation for the popular image of him as a drunken wife-beater. His second wife, however, was more than once in trouble for brawling. During his last years Frans Hals was destitute and the municipal authorities of Haarlem awarded him a small annuan stipend four years before his death.

Frans Hals was the first great artist of the 17th-century Dutch school and is regarded as one of the most brilliant of all portraitists. Almost all his works are portraits and even those that are not (some genre scenes, and an occasional religious picture) are portrait-like in character. Frans Hals is said to have been taught in Haarlem by Karel van Mander, but there is no discernible influence from him in Hals's early works, which are not numerous or well documented.

The earliest extant picture is the fragment of a portrait Jacobus Zaffius (Hals Museum, Haarlem, 1611), and upon the basis of stylistic evidence one or two paintings can be dated a year or so earlier. Nothing Frans Hals did before 1616 suggested that he would shatter well-established traditions with his life-size group portrait The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company (Hals Museum) painted during that year. There is no precedent in either his own work or that of his predecessors for the vigorous composition and characterization of this picture, which has become a symbol of the strength and healthy optimism of the men who established the new Dutch Republic. It demonstrates to the full his remarkable ability -- his greatest gift as a portraitist -- to capture a sense of fleeting movement and expression and thereby convey a compelling feeling of vivacity. - Frans Hals oil painting pictures, wholesale oil paintings - Frans Hals wholesale oil painting picture - wholesale oil paintings picture, supply Frans Hals bio, wholesale Netherlands oil painting Frans Hals and oil painting pictures.

From 1616 onwards there is no shortage of dated or documented works and his artistic development is clear. Frans Hals was at the height of his popularity in the 1620s and 1630s. During these decades Frans Hals made five large group portraits of civil guards; one is in the Rijksmuseum and the others are in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the only place where one can get a comprehensive view of his range and power.

In the 1630s his compositions became simpler and monochromatic effects took the place of the bright colors of the earlier paintings (Lucas de Clercq and Feyntje van Steenkiste, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1635). The group portrait of the Regents of the St Elizabeth Hospital (Frans Hals Museum, 1641) sets the key for the sober restraint of the late period, when his pictures became darker and his brush-strokes more economical. The culmination of this phase -- indeed of his entire career -- are his group portraits of the Regents and the Regentesses of the Old Men's Alms House (Frans Hals Museum, c. 1664), which rank among the most moving portraits ever painted. By this time Frans Hals was using in his commissioned portraits the bold brushwork and the alla prima technique which early in his career Frans Hals reserved for genre pictures. No drawings by him are known and Frans Hals presumably worked straight on to the canvas.

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