Frans Hals

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Written by H. P. Baard Frans Hals, one of the greatest of all portrait painters, helped to make the seventeenth century into what has been called the Golden Age of the United Dutch Republic. During his long life and career, spent in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam, he created the vivid characterizations of his contemporaries reproduced here--merchants, a tramp, burgomasters, urchins, regents, officers and sergeants of the local civic guard companies. Not only did he receive high praise from writers of the time, but his loose and lively brushstrokes won him the admiration of the Impressionists more than two centuries later.Hal's remarkable ability to penetrate the outward appearance of his sitters and reveal their innermost personalities marks him as a masterly and profound portraitist. This volume attempts to free Hals from his cramping image as a painter of lighthearted gaiety and to place him instead among the truly unique masters of color and light. Hardcover with jacket, 168 pages, illustrated with 49 large full colour images, 119 reproductions, published in the Abrams' Masters of Art series, a general Dutch Heritage title Show more