This document provides biographical information about Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals and discusses his style and influence. It notes that Hals was born in 1582/1583 in Antwerp and moved to Haarlem as a child where he would live and work for the rest of his life. As a portrait painter, he was known for his individual and group portraits, use of loose brushwork that gave a liveliness to his subjects, and his role as a teacher to other Dutch masters like Adriaen Brouwer. The document also discusses how Hals' work was rediscovered by Impressionist painters in the 19th century like Manet, Monet, and Van Gogh who were drawn to his

1. Frans Hals. An introduction
Michiel Kersten

2. Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo:
‘Frans Hals is the colorist under the colorists’
‘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.’

3. CatharinaHooftandhernurse,circa1619-20|
Berlin,GemäldeGalerie

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. ShrovetideRevellers,1616,oiloncanvasNew
York,MetropolitainMuseumofArt
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InfluenceofJacobJordaens,PeterPaulRubens

9. IsaacMassaenBeatrixvanderLaan,circa1622
Amsterdam,Rijksmuseum

10. JacobPieterszOlycanandAlettaHanemans,1625
|DenHaag,Mauritshuis

11. StephanusGeraedtsandIsabellaCoymans,1650-
52|Antwerpen|Privatcollection

12. ‘JonkerRampandhisbeloved’,circa1623
NewYork,MetropolitainMuseumofArt

13. The‘rommelpot’player,circa1618-20
FortWorth,Texas,TheKimbellArtMuseum

14. Buffoonplayingthelute,circa1623
Paris,MuséeduLouvre

15. ‘Peeckelharing’,1628-30|
Kassel,StaatlicheKunstsammlung

16. Drinkingwomanwithanowlonhershoulder
(MalleBabbe),1630-35|
Berlin,GemäldeGalerie

17. MalleBabbe,detail

18. TheLaughingCavalier,1624|
Londen,WallaceCollection

19. Thelaughingcavalier,detail

20. Thejollytoper,1630|
Amsterdam,Rijksmuseum

21. WillemvanHeythuysen,circa1638|
Frankrijk,Privatecollection

22. Portraitofafamily,1635
Cincinatti,Ohio,CincinattiMuseumofArt

23. Frans Hals
Civic Guards / Militia Pieces in Haarlem

24. OfficierenvandeSint-Jorisschutterij,1616

25. TheofficersoftheCivicGuardofSaintAdriaen
(Cluveniers/TheCalivermen),1627

26. TheOfficersoftheCivicGuardofSaintGeorge,
1627

29. TheregentessesoftheOldMen’sAlmsHouse,
1664

30. TheregentessenoftheOldMen’sAlmsHouse,
1664-Detail

31. TheregentsoftheOldMen’sAlmsHouse,1664

32. TheregentsoftheOldMen’sAlmsHouse,1664
Detail

33. Judith Leyster

34. JudithLeyster(1609-1660),Thejollytoper
(drinker),ca.1629
Haarlem,FransHalsMuseum

36. The discovery of Hals after 1850

37. 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

38. WilliamMerittChase(1849-1916),inzijnatelier,
1880-1916,BezochtHaarlemsamenmetWhistler
in1885

39. EdouardManet(1832-1883),
Unbonbock(portraitofÉmileBelot),1873
|Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaMuseumofArt

41. EdouardManet,BertheMorisot,1872|Parijs

42. EdouardManet,
GeorgesClémanceau,1879-80|FortWorth

43. VincentvanGogh(1853-1890),
Zelfportret,1887|Chicago

44. VincentvanGogh,
Portraitofawoman,1885
Amsterdam,VanGoghMuseum

46. JohnSingerSargent,copiesafterFransHals