Frans Hals

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Style: Dutch Golden Age;

Place: Antwerp

Born: 1582

Death: 1666

Biography:

Frans Hals the Elder (/hɑːls/ Dutch: [ɦɑls] c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group port...

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