Frans Hals is the latest 17th century Dutch master to feature in a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, following recent showings of the art of Rembrandt and Vermeer.

Frans Hals is one of art history’s most recognizable names, and painter of some of its most recognizable faces.One characteristic of Hals’ work which has set him apart from his contemporaries ...

But a major exhibition argues that Frans Hals is an old master on par with Rembrandt and Vermeer. ... Théophile Thoré-Burger, is credited with causing a resurgence of interest in Hals’s work.

Frans Hals painted him twice. ... As an artist who worked principally to commission, it is odd to think he would never have seen his own work gathered like this, ...

If you are looking for more, the Rijksmuseum’s curator of 17th-century Dutch painting Friso Lammertse has picked five key books about the life and work of Frans Hals. Frans Hals's The Lute ...

The new retrospective of the Dutch painter Frans Hals at the National Gallery in London—the first major exhibition of his work since 1989—is a slightly nervous event for the most talented one ...

Artist Rick Graham shows us how he captures a live figure session using an iPad app that replicates real paint ...

Frans Hals, “The Lute Player” (before 1623–24), ... This is as close as we can get to the sensation of seeing Hals at work.” Installation view of Frans Hals at the National Gallery, London.

With Jimi Hendrix paintings, wall murals and even biscuit tins inspired by it, the 1624 painting The Laughing Cavalier still reverberates today, writes Deborah Nicholls-Lee.

Even in this fragment of Frans Hals’s painting of the Van Campens, it is clear the artist was ahead of his time This family portrait by the great 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Hals (1582/1583 ...

No joke: Frans Hals paints all of Dutch life at new exhibition February 13, 2024 Senay Boztas Installing The Lute Player, a loan from the Louvre Photo: Rijksmuseum/Kelly Schenk. It isn’t just the ...