Haarlem in a sentence

Haarlem also has a growing music scene, with a well-established jazz festival, plus 2023’s new Haarlem Vinyl Festival (29 September–1 October), which will draw record lovers from across the globe.

According to the Haarlem archives, a schutterstuk that Hals started in Amsterdam was finished by Pieter Codde because Hals refused to paint in Amsterdam, insisting that the militiamen come to Haarlem to sit for their portraits.

Earliest known Haarlem printer Between 1483 and 1486, Jacob Bellaert worked in Haarlem.

For this reason, we can be sure that all sitters were either from Haarlem or were visiting Haarlem when they had their portraits made.

The restoration work was paid for by the city of Haarlem, since all Catholic religious art had been confiscated after the satisfactie van Haarlem had been reversed in 1578, which had formerly given Catholics equal rights to Protestants.

For example, Holland's Haarlem houses the 'Corrie ten Boom House,' a museum which is the site of the 'Hiding Place' where the much-loved Christian heroine hid Jews during the Holocaust.

They felt Amsterdam was 'just way too crazy' for them, but that all changed when they visited Haarlem after the birth of their son.

Shortly after moving in, he got a Shiba Inu puppy that he named Haarlem, in tribute to his favorite neighborhood (spelled with two A’s, in a nod to the area’s Dutch history).

The alpaca was captured in Haarlem's historic city center, between the Grote Markt and the train station.

The VR glasses offer six videos, each with a different theme, covering the Keukenhof, Volendam, Muiderslot, Almere, Haarlem and Zandvoort.

A primary collection of his work is displayed in the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem.

As biographer Seymour Slive has pointed out, older stories of Frans Hals abusing his first wife were confused with another Haarlem resident of the same name.

As captain of Director at the Battle of Camperdown on 11 October, Bligh engaged three Dutch vessels: Haarlem, Alkmaar and Vrijheid.

Haarlem, Gouda, and Delft were all cities with early printing presses.

He became a popular portrait painter, and painted the wealthy of Haarlem on special occasions.

His scientific papers are held at the Noord-Hollands Archief in Haarlem; the Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection is held in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading in England.

In 1842, the railroad from Leiden to Haarlem was inaugurated and one year later the railway to Den Haag was completed, resulting in some social and economic improvement.

In August 1750, on a journey back from Germany to London, Handel was seriously injured in a carriage accident between The Hague and Haarlem in the Netherlands.

In the 1981–2 season Gullit was in fine form as Haarlem finished fourth and qualified for Europe for the only time in their history.

Note: This book is considered by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem to be the best survey of the works of Frans Hals.