The man who is credited with creating some of the most beautiful and happy portraits of all time is Frans Hals. A painter of the Dutch Golden Age, Hals is known for his lively, realistic, and ...

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Europe News: Two paintings by Frans Hals, possibly depicting his children, are returning to the Netherlands after a century abroad. The Frans Hals Museum and the M ...

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Wanting to see the Frans Hals exhibition currently on at the Rijksmuseum, I was in the ticket queue within 25 minutes of leaving my breakfast table at Hotel nhow Amsterdam RAI.

The artist was Frans Hals, who is the subject of a new exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. (A different version was previously shown at the National Gallery in London.) ...

The Frans Hals exhibition, opening today (16 February) at the Rijksmuseum, comes at a time when there are huge differences among specialists on how many paintings come from the master’s hand.

But who was the man behind the paintings? ... • Frans Hals, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 16 February-9 June; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 12 July-3 November. Book Club Books Ultimate reading list Frans Hals.

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 ...

Frans Hals was born in Antwerp in the southern Netherlands in 1582 during a dangerous time. Just six years earlier, the city was sacked by troops of the Spanish Habsburg Emperor, Phillip II.