# Frans Hals

Dutch, 1582–1666; born in Antwerp; died in Haarlem

Hals was born in Antwerp but spent his whole career in Haarlem, where he became its leading portraitist. His loose, rapid brushwork, unusual for its time, gives his sitters a sense of movement and spontaneity, whether in commissioned likenesses, lively genre figures or the large group portraits of the city’s civic guards and almshouse regents. His late, darker style was little valued after his death, but painters such as Manet and Van Gogh admired him intensely.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

3 works in the collection.

- [Portrait of a Lady](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/portrait-of-a-lady-aic-105945), Frans Hals, 1627. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/portrait-of-tieleman-roosterman-cma-160885), Frans Hals, 1634. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Merrymakers at Shrovetide](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/merrymakers-at-shrovetide-met-436622), Frans Hals, ca. 1616–17. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.