Judith Leyster was mistaken for Frans Hals and not rediscovered until the end of the 19th century. But her smile was unmistakably her own. I love this self-portrait by Judith Leyster, a 17th ...

"Young Man and Woman in an Inn" by Franz Hals, 1623 Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art The robber barons loved the portraits of the 17th century Dutch painter Frans Hals, and nowhere did ...

Left: The Van Campen Family in a Landscape (fragment), c. 1623–25, Frans Hals. Oil on canvas. (Toledo Museum of Art) Right: Portrait of a Dutch Family, mid-1630s, Frans Hals. Oil on canvas ...

Frans Hals painted him twice. First a standing portrait grasping his pretty sword against a backdrop of rose-coloured silk beside a formal garden in 1625. ... self-satisfied fops to jolly nursemaids.

Art History Frans Hals Is a Master of the ‘Fleeting Moment.’ Here Are Backstories Behind 5 Seminal Works. His enigmatic portraits have been traveling across Europe for nearly a year.

Frans Hals (c.1582-1666), was a ... Even the famous Laughing Cavalier has an air of smugness to him, his “self-confident come-hither gaze” radiating insincere charm. ... Each portrait – the ...

This family portrait by the great 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Hals (1582/1583–1666) all but cries out for a 21st-century caption. “Another convention in Amsterdam?” you can imagine the ...

At some point, Frans Hals’s large ‘The Van Campen Family in a Landscape’ was cut into pieces that found their way into different collections; now, they have been brought back together.

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 ...