Frans Hals spent his entire career in the city of ... lives—a portrait could assert status and commemorate legacy, a still life painting could showcase taste and wealth, and a genre scene ...

They are captured singing and playing, in a fleeting moment of tenderness. Now a pair of unusually intimate portraits by 17th century Dutch master Frans Hals are on public sale – if you have at least ...

while a 1704 still life of strawberries by Adriaen Coorte, whose works are rare to market, is set to fetch $2 million to $3 million. There’s a Frans Hals double portrait of a musical boy and ...