Frans Hals is today rated as one of the finest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, his virtuoso brushwork creating vibrant characters on the canvas. As a major retrospective opens in the Rijksmuseum in ...

When the Nazis came to power, many of their friends and family fled to England or the US. Berg and Schwarz initially felt ...

The artwork is being loaned to museums across the country as part of the gallery’s two-year “Across the Nation” initiative ...

A detail view of Frans Hals’ "Merry Drinker" (left) and Vincent van Gogh's "Postman Joseph Roulin" (right), on display in the "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits" exhibition at Museum of Fine ...

A Rembrandt drawing of a lion could approach a record sum for a work on paper when it is expected to come up for auction next year. Thomas Kaplan, an American collector of Dutch 17th-century art ...

Other works among the 75 on show include masterpieces by Jan Steen, Jan Lievens, Gerrit Dou, Frans van Mieris and Frans Hals. Annabelle Birnie, general director of H’ART Museum, said the project had ...

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC is sending treasures from its collection to institutions in ten states to celebrate next year’s US semiquincentennial. Under the auspices of ...

The museum is still best known for its impressive collection of Old Masters, notably pieces by 17th-century Dutch painters such as Rembrandt (a particularly rakish self-portrait), Brueghel and ...

“From Rembrandt to Vermeer, Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection” will include 75 works by 27 artists, including Vermeer’s “Seated Virginal Player” and pieces by Golden Age Dutch masters such as ...

Sargent has plentiful similarities with Henry James, but the figure he most reminds me of is the seventeenth-century Dutch portrait- meester Frans Hals, whose work he studied up close on a trip to ...