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'''Frans Hals''' (ca. Antwerp 1580- Haarlem 1666) Dutch [[Baroque]] painter. The most important Dutch portrait painter. | '''Frans Hals''' (ca. Antwerp 1580- Haarlem 1666) Dutch [[Baroque]] painter. The most important Dutch portrait painter. | ||
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Frans Hals (ca. Antwerp 1580- Haarlem 1666) Dutch Baroque painter. The most important Dutch portrait painter.
Like his contemporary Spanish painter Diego Velazquez, he used colour to structure forms. It is in the paintings of his old age that his genius for portraying human character is fully revealed.
Some of his famous works are: The Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Militia Company 1616, Laughing Cavalier 1624, Gipsy Girl 1628-30 and Officers and Sergeants of the St. Hadrian Civic Guard 1633.
Gallery
"Malle Babbe"
"Laughing Cavalier"
Jester with a Lute