Frans Hals’s “The Lute Player” (1623-4). Some of Hals’s most popular paintings depict characters he encountered in the taverns of Haarlem, the Netherlands.

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 HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals that possibly depict his own children are returning to the Netherlands after more than a century overseas ...

Frans Hals changed that. A new exhibition of the Dutch master's paintings that opens this week at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, celebrates the joy he introduced to the artform.

A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals that possibly depict his own children are returning to the Netherlands after more than a century overseas in the hands of private owners ...