A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals, possibly depicting his own children, are returning to the ...

The artist was Frans Hals ... study of a child playing the flute, the subject gazes out of frame, ignoring the viewer entirely; so does a jester playing the lute (pictured). Hals could create ...

Judith Leyster was mistaken for Frans Hals and not rediscovered until the ... Molenaer’s 1637-1638 self-portrait playing a lute, also in the National Gallery, is impossible not to take seriously.

The Dutch Old Master Frans Hals is renowned for capturing the expressions of his sitters, whether the cheeky sideways glance of a lute player or a smirking “cavalier”. But who was the man ...

The person who knew best was the painter Frans Hals. No other artist of the last 400 years painted quite as many smiles. Think of the mischievous grin of his jolly jester in “The Lute Player.” ...

“Boy Playing the Violin” and “Girl Singing,” were bought Monday at auction for $7.8 million by the Frans Hals Museum and the Mauritshuis museum, with financial support from the Dutch ...

The Frans Hals Museum and the Mauritshuis jointly purchased "Boy Playing the Violin" and "Girl Singing" for $7.8 million. The museums will share the works, displaying them in Haarlem and The Hague ...