‘What a joy it is to see a Frans Hals, how different it is from the paintings – so many of them – where everything is carefully smoothed out in the same manner.’
Catharina Hooft and her nurse, circa 1619-20 | Berlin, Gem
älde Galerie
Frans Hals – biography
• Born 1582/83 in Antwerpen – died 1666 in Haarlem• 1586 Family moves to Haarlem (baptism of his brother Dirck)• 1603 Pupil of Karel van Mander• 1610 Member of the Guild of Saint Luke• 1610 Marriage with Anneke Harmensdr• 1616 Journey to Antwerpen to study Peter Paul Rubens’ work• 1617 Marriage with Lysbeth Reyniersdr in Spaarndam• Total number of children: 15
Frans Hals – portrait painter
• Individual portraits and portraits of couples (double portraits)• Comic figures and Children (genre scenes)• Children • Family portraits• Regents and regentesses• Militia pieces (Civic Guards)
Frans Hals - paintings
Number of paintings by Hals• circa 220 (Seymour Slive)• circa 145 (Claus Grimm)
Pupils:• Dirck Hals• Adriaen Brouwer• Adriaen van Ostade• Philips Wouwerman• Pieter Gerritsz Roestraeten, • Jan Miense Molenaer• Judith Leyster
van Heythuysen, circa 1638 | Frankrijk, Private collection
Portrait of a family, 1635
Cincinatti, O
hio, Cincinatti M
useum of Art
Frans HalsCivic Guards / Militia Pieces in Haarlem
Offi
cieren van de Sint-Jorisschutterij, 1616
The officers of the Civic Guard of Saint Adriaen
(Cluveniers/The Calivermen), 1627
The Offi
cers of the Civic Guard of Saint George, 1627
The regentesses of the Old M
en’s Alms House,
1664
The regentessen of the Old M
en’s Alms House,
1664 - Detail
The regents of the Old M
en’s Alms House, 1664
The regents of the Old M
en’s Alms House, 1664
Detail
Judith Leyster
Judith Leyster (1609-1660), The jolly toper (drinker), ca. 1629
Haarlem, Frans Hals M
useum
The discovery of Hals after 1850
The impressionists• Edouard Manet• Claude Monet• Charles Daubigny• Gustave Courbet• William Meritt Chase• John Singer Sargent• Mary Cassett• James Abott NcNeill Whistler• Max Liebermann• Lovis Corinth• Isaac Israëls • Jacobus van Looy• Vincent van Gogh
William
Meritt Chase (1849-1916), in zijn atelier,
1880-1916, Bezocht Haarlem sam
en met W
histler in 1885
Edouard Manet (1832-1883),
Un bon bock (portrait of Ém
ile Belot), 1873 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia M
useum of Art
Edouard Manet, Berthe M
orisot, 1872 | Parijs
Edouard Manet,
Georges Clémanceau, 1879-80 | Fort W
orth
Claude Monet (1840-1926),
Strandscene, 1870
Vincent van Gogh ((1853-1890), Zelfportret, 1887 | Chicago