The streets currently bear the names of classical music composer Josef Reiter and entertainer Franz Resl, both of whom were ...

The man who is credited with creating some of the most beautiful and happy portraits of all time is Frans Hals. A painter of the Dutch Golden Age, Hals is known for his lively, realistic, and ...

Born between 1582 and 1584, Hals was likely just three years old when Antwerp, his home town, was besieged by the army of Habsburg Spain during the Eighty Years’ War. At the time, Antwerp was the ...

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 ...

Pair of portraits by Dutch master Frans Hals return to the Netherlands By: Molly Quell, The Associated Press Posted: 9:42 AM CDT Tuesday, May. 27, 2025 Last Modified: 7:59 PM CDT Tuesday, May. 27 ...

A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals, possibly depicting his own children, are returning to the Netherlands after more than a century overseas in the hands of private owners.

Many of us are familiar with titans of the Dutch Golden Age like Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt, Jan Steen, and more. Yet fewer of us have probably heard of Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), ...

Frans Hals, born in Antwerp about 1584, was 20 years older than the great Rembrandt van Rijn whom he scarcely knew. He married twice, produced 14 children and a mass of canvases, but had on the ...

In the first place, he said, he heard that Eleanor had barricaded the front door with his $75,000 Rembrandt, had flung a Franz Hals portrait and a Turner landscape into a damp basement liquor ...

Jackson Arn on Jean Strouse’s book about Asher Wertheimer, a Jewish art dealer, and John Singer Sargent, the portraitist whose work is too often deemed an unironic celebration of the rich.

Art History Frans Hals Is a Master of the ‘Fleeting Moment.’ Here Are Backstories Behind 5 Seminal Works His enigmatic portraits have been traveling across Europe for nearly a year.