Hals in a sentence

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.

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

Parts of this article are excerpts of The Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, July 2005 by Antoon Erftemeijer, Frans Hals Museum curator.

Statue of Frans Hals in Florapark, Haarlem Frans Hals married his first wife Anneke Harmensdochter around 1610.

Spare some time to admire palettes used by true masters in a series of new exhibitions: catch Frans Hals at the Rijksmuseum and Directed by Rembrandt at the Rembrandt House Museum.

Duchess’s subjects are devoted to the pedestal, the Hals’s image.

The collection, in short, reflects the personal tastes of a family over time — and some of the dukes had excellent taste — with the final pairing of the fine Rembrandt with a self-portrait by Franz Hals.

Michelle Hals of Minneapolis was disappointed when Fitbit would offer her only a 25 per cent discount on a new device after she said a software update made her tracker useless.

The Keene Clan–John, Hillary, Adelaide, Thea, Ella and Lathrop–traveled to Steamboat Springs, Colo. to bring a little Christmas cheer and to celebrate big Hals Noyes’ birthday.

After his first wife died, Hals took on the young daughter of a fishmonger to look after his children and, in 1617, he married Lysbeth Reyniers.

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.

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

Early works by Hals show him as a careful draughtsman capable of great finish yet spirited, such as Two singing boys with a lute and a music book and Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia (1616).

Frans Hals painted the company three times.

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

Hals chose not to give a smooth finish to his painting, as most of his contemporaries did, but mimicked the vitality of his subject by using smears, lines, spots, large patches of color and hardly any details.

Hals displayed tremendous daring, great courage and virtuosity, and had a great capacity to pull back his hands from the canvas, or panel, at the moment of the most telling statement.

Hals' reputation waned after his death and for two centuries he was held in such poor esteem that some of his paintings, which are now among the proudest possessions of public galleries, were sold at auction for a few pounds or even shillings.

Hals seized a moment in the life of his subjects with rare intuition.