Frans Hals is one of art history’s most recognizable names, and painter of some of its most recognizable faces. One characteristic of Hals’ work which has set him apart from his contemporaries and ...

His grinning subjects can be hard to take seriously. But a major exhibition argues that Frans Hals is an old master on par with Rembrandt and Vermeer. By Nina Siegal Nina Siegal reported this story ...

Frans Hals, "The Lute Player" (before 1623–24), oil on canvas; Musée du Louvre, Paris (© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Mathieu Rabeau) LONDON — While visiting the National Gallery’s monographic ...

Among the many artistic depredations that devastated France under Nazi rule, the looting of the Schloss collection came to be seen as a defining case, one that exemplifies the mechanisms, ...

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 humorous ...

Until they opened a museum in the summer of 1862, the burghers of Haarlem in The Netherlands never fully realized the extent of their riches. There had been paintings in various public buildings all ...

The Dutch painter Frans Hals’s Van Campen Family in a Landscape (ca. 1623–25) was his first family portrait, and his largest—until the painting was mysteriously sliced up and dispersed in the late ...

There was a time when Frans Hals (1582-1666) was remembered as one of the greatest of canonical artists, said Rachel Cooke in The Observer. The Dutch 17th century portraitist was, for instance, a huge ...