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HALS, FRANS, the elder, born in Antwerp
in 1584, died in Haarlem, Aug. 26,
1666. Dutch school;
portrait and genre
painter of great renown;
pupil of
Karel Van Mander.
A most influential
teacher and founder
of a national style,
and a portrait painter
to be ranked with
the greatest masters.
Addicted to drunkenness, according
to Houbraken, he was never prosperous,
despite his long and active life and his unusual
talent, which excited Van Dyck's admiration.
In 1664, reduced to sheer want,
he was supported by the municipality and
pensioned. Flesh-colouring unequalled;
handling broad, masterly, and vigourous.
Pictures unequal in merit; his immense
facility sometimes led him to be careless
and sketchy. Works: Joh. Bogardus (1614);
Banquet of Officers (1616), do. (1627), do.
(1627), Assembly of Officers (1633), Officers
of St. George's Guild (1639), Regents of St.
Elizabeth's Hospital (1641), Regents of Old
Men's Hospital (1664), do. (1664), Haarlem
Museum; portrait of himself and his second
wife (1624), The Fool (1625), Jolly
Toper (1630), Old Lady (1639), Museum,
Amsterdam; Archery-piece (1637), City
Hall, ib.; Portrait of John Barclay (before
1610), Athenæum, ib.; Male Portrait (1655),
Six Collection, ib.; do., Rotterdam Museum;
Portraits of Dutch Nobleman and
Wife (1625), Hague Museum; Male Portrait,
do. (1645), Museum, Brussels; Singing
Boys, Merry Tippler, Arenberg Gallery,
ib.; De Strandlooper van Haarlem (1640),
Male Portrait (1635), do. (1640), Antwerp
Museum; Laughing Girl (1630), Portrait of
a Lady, Portraits (3) of Beresteyn Family
(1629, 1630), Louvre, Paris; Topers, Male
and Female Portrait, Rothan Gallery, ib.;
Male Portrait (1626), Old Lady, Young Lady
(1634), Buffoon, Laughing Girl (1635), Rommelpotspeeler,
Man and Wife (1638), do.
(1643), Count Mniszech, ib.; Laughing Girl
(1645), Lille Museum; Male Portrait (1632),
Bordeaux Museum; Singing Boy (1625),
Male Portraits (1625, 1627, 1656, 1660), Man
and Wife (1627), Child with Nurse, Toper
(1630), Hille Bobbe van Haarlem (about
1650), Berlin Museum; Nobleman and
Wife (1620), Two Boys making Music
(1625), Toper (1640), Male Portraits (3,
1655, 1660), Laughing Girl, Cassel Gallery;
Male Portraits (2, 1630), Dresden Gallery;
do. (1635, 1655), Gotha Museum; Young
Man (1624), Man and Wife (1638), Städel
Gallery, Frankfort; Boy playing the Flute
(1625), Königsberg Museum; do., and Boy
Drinking, Male Portrait (1630), Schwerin
Gallery; Man and Wife (1643), Stettin Museum;
Male Portrait (1650), Museum, Vienna;
do. (2, 1630, 1644), Liechtenstein
Gallery, ib.; do. (1655), Old Lady (1638),
Baron Rothschild, ib.; Male Portrait (1650),
National Gallery, Pesth; do. (4, 1635, 1650,
1660), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Old
Woman's Head (1645), National Gallery,
London; do. (1640), Bridgewater Gallery,
ib.; Male Portrait (1630), Buckingham Palace,
ib.; do. (1624), Manchester House, ib.;
do. (1635), Marquis of Bute, ib.; Artist's
Portrait (1622), Devonshire House, ib.;
Herring Seller (1616), Lord Northbrook, ib.;
Male Portrait (1628), Hampton Court Palace;
Hille Bobbe (?, probably by Frans, the
younger), Meeting of Trained Bands to celebrate
Peace of Münster (with Dirk Hals),
Metropolitan Museum, New York; Portrait (?),
Historical Society, ib.; other pictures
attributed to him in the galleries of
Munich, Stuttgart, Brunswick, Weimar, Oldenburg,
etc., are not by him. Of his seven
sons five were painters: Herman (1611-69),
painted conversation pieces;
Johannes (died in 1650), figures
and genre scenes; Frans
(see following article); Regnier
(1627-89), genre scenes;
Nicolaas (born in 1628), genre and landscape.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., x. 451; Ch.