Portrait after Frans Hals, 1648.

Two centuries after his death, Hals received a number of ' posthumous ' students.

Shortly after he published his much acclaimed Märchenstüberl series, his work has been exhibited worldwide in solo exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l ' art in Paris ; Munchner Fotomuseum in Munich ; Museum Folkwang in Essen ; Galleria d ' Arte Moderna in Bologna ; Frans Hals Museum in The Netherlands ; Inverleith House in Edinburgh and the Kunsthalle Mannheim.

Hals refused even to travel to Amsterdam to paint the lucrative schuttersstukken, and a few years after the trekschuit made commuting to Amsterdam possible in 1632 he attempted this in 1636 with the De Magere Compagnie, but gave it up and let Pieter Codde finish it.

Like many, Hals ' parents fled during the Fall of Antwerp ( 1584-1585 ) from the Spanish Netherlands to Haarlem, where he lived for the remainder of his life.

It was under these circumstances that Hals began his career in portraiture, since the market for religious themes had disappeared.

Similarly, historical accounts of Hals ' propensity for drink have been largely based on embellished anecdotes of his early biographers, namely Arnold Houbraken, with no direct evidence existing documenting such.

According to the Haarlem archives, a militia piece that Hals started in Amsterdam was finished by another painter because Hals refused to paint in Amsterdam, insisting that the militiamen come to Haarlem to sit for their portraits.

At a time when the Dutch nation fought for independence during the Eighty Years ' War, Hals appeared in the ranks of the schutterij, a military guild.

Hals is best known for his portraits, mainly of wealthy citizens, like Pieter van den Broecke and Isaac Massa, whom he painted three times.

The Haarlem portrait painter, Johannes Verspronck, one of about 10 competing portraitists in Haarlem at the time, possibly studied for some time with Hals.

* Frans Hals biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen ( 1718 ) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

Another museum is the Frans Hals Museum of fine arts, with its main location housing Dutch master paintings, and its exhibition halls on the Grote Markt housing a gallery for modern art called De Hallen.

Other museums are Het Dolhuys ( a museum of psychiatry ), the Ten Boom Museum ( a hiding place for Jews in World War II ) and the Historisch Museum Haarlem, across from the Frans Hals Museum.

File: Frans Hals 001. png | Boy with a Lute ( Frans Hals, c. 1625 ): a young musician " calling for a refill ".

" Breugel's cavorting peasants also laid the foundation for the secular genre scenes of Dutch Golden Age painters like Jan Steen and Frans Hals, as further discussed in the Consequences section below.

Frans Hals, Rembrandt and other artists had adopted a variety of poses to liven up the group portrait, for example the famous Night Watch.

The business did not seek to auction fine arts in general until much later, their first major success in this field being the sale of a Frans Hals painting for 9 thousand guineas as late as 1913.

Image: St. Bavochurch Haarlem Frans Hals. jpg | Marker for grave of Frans Hals.

In 1681 the Mennonite congregation with whom his cousin Jacob was connected, petitioned the council of Haarlem for his admission into the local old men's almshouse ( today the location of the Frans Hals Museum ), and there the artist died on the 14th of March 1682.

The collection is based on the wealthy collection of the city hall itself, including more than a dozen paintings by Frans Hals, for whom it is named, but also contains other interesting Haarlem art from the 15th century up to the present day.

In 1810 the complex became an orphanage, and in 1913 it became the new location for the classical collection of the Frans Hals museum, including the paintings by Frans Hals.

Frans Hals himself worked as the first official city-paid restorer for some of these pieces.

The Wallace Collection also displays many other treasures, such as two paintings by Titian, four Rembrandts, three Rubenses, four Van Dycks, twenty-two Canalettos, nineteen Bouchers, masterpieces by de Hooch, nine Teniers, Frans Hals, nine Murillos, two Velázquez and paintings by Domenichino, Cima, Daddi, Reni, Rosa, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Antoine Watteau, Nicholas Lancret, Jan Steen, Aelbert Cuyp and nine Guardis.

The most important works include Maso di Banco's Coronation of the Virgin, Sassetta's Saint Thomas Aquinas at Prayer, Domenico Ghirlandaio's Saint Stephen Martyr, Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Caterina Cornaro, Giorgione's Portrait of a Young Man, Raphael's Esterhazy Madonna, Correggio's Madonna and Child with an Angel, three works by Sebastiano del Piombo, Bronzino's Adoration of the Shepherds as well as his Venus, Cupid and Jealousy, Titian's Portrait of Doge Marcantonio Trevisani, Tintoretto's Supper at Emmaus, Tiepolo's St James the Greater in the Battle of Clavijo, Dürer's Portrait of a Young Man, Bernard van Orley's Portrait of Emperor Charles V, eight pictures by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's St John the Baptist Preaching, Rubens's Mucius Scaevola Before Porsenna, two excellent portraits by Frans Hals, and a particularly strong collection of works by Spanish masters including El Greco, Velázquez and Goya.

Frans Hals painted him several times, and one of these portraits hung in this hofje for centuries.

Frans Hals the Elder ( c. 1582 – 26 August 1666 ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Hals was also instrumental in the evolution of 17th century group portraiture.

Hals was born in 1582 or 1583, in Antwerp as the son of the cloth merchant Franchois Fransz Hals van Mechelen ( c. 1542-1610 ) and his second wife Adriaentje van Geertenryck.

Historians have erroneously reported that he mistreated his first wife, Anneke Hermansz ( Annetje Harmensdochter Abeel ), based on records that a Frans Hals was charged with spousal abuse in Haarlem in 1616.

However, as biographer Seymour Slive has pointed out, the Frans Hals in question was not the artist, but another Haarlem resident of the same name.

Frans Hals was a devoted father and they went on to have eight children.

Although Hals ' work was in demand throughout his life, he lived so long that he eventually went out of style as a painter and experienced financial difficulties.

Hals was also a member of a local chamber of rhetoric, and in 1644 he became chairman of the Guild of St. Luke.

Frans Hals died in Haarlem in 1666 and was buried in the city's St. Bavo Church.

Hals was fond of daylight and silvery sheen, while Rembrandt used golden glow effects based upon artificial contrasts of low light in immeasurable gloom.

Both men were painters of touch, but of touch on different keys — Rembrandt was the bass, Hals the treble.

Far less scattered in arrangement than this Beresteyn group, and in every respect one of the most masterly of Hals ' achievements is the group called The Painter and his Family, which was almost unknown until it appeared at the winter exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1906.

Hals was a master of a technique that utilized something previously seen as a flaw in painting, the visible brushstroke.

It does seem that Hals usually applied his underpainting very loosely: he was a virtuoso from the beginning.

For that matter, schematic painting was not Hals ' own idea ( the approach already existed in 16th century Italy ), and Hals was probably inspired by Flemish contemporaries, Rubens and Van Dyck, in his painting method.

Frans influenced his brother Dirck Hals ( born at Haarlem, 1591 – 1656 ), who was also a painter.

Roestraten was not only a student ( in the Haarlem archives this is proven with a notarised document ), but he also became a son-in-law of Hals when he married his daughter Adriaentje.