![]() ![]() The latter is perhaps more expressive than the former. Both men were painters of touch, but of touch on different keys - Rembrandt was the bass, Hals the treble. Hals was fond of daylight of silvery sheen. We prize in Rembrandt the golden glow of effects based upon artificial contrasts of low light in immeasurable gloom. van Schoreel and Antonio Moro, and, emancipating himself gradually from tradition, produced pictures remarkable for truth and dexterity of hand. But he soon improved upon the practice of the time, illustrated by J. Davies, but on his removal toHaarlem Frans Hals entered the atelier of van Mander, the painter and historian, of whom he possessed some pictures which went to pay the debt of the baker already alluded to. His first master at Antwerp was probably van Noort, as has been suggested by M. His portraits of gentlefolk are true and noble, but hardly so expressive as those of fishwives and tavern heroes. But they are not more characteristic than his low-life pictures of itinerant players and singers. His banquets or meetings of officers, of sharpshooters, and gildsmen are the most interesting of his works. Hals's pictures illustrate the various strata of society into which his misfortunes led him. We may admire the spirit which enabled him to produce some of his most striking works in his unhappy circumstances: we find his widow seeking outdoor relief from the guardians of the poor, and dying obscurely in a hospital. Subsequently to this he was reduced to still greater straits, and his rent and firing were paid by the municipality, which afterwards gave him (1664) an annuity of 200 florins. This humble list represents all his worldly possessions at the time of his bankruptcy. The inventory of the property seized on this occasion only mentions three mattresses and bolsters, an armoire, a table and five pictures. Still he brought up and supported a family of ten children with success till 1652, when the forced sale of his pictures and furniture, at the suit of a baker to whom he was indebted for bread and money, brought him to absolute penury. Another defect was partiality to drink, which led him into low company. 28 that she died prematurely in 1616 and he barely saved the character of his second, Lysbeth Reyniers, by marrying her in 1617. He so ill-treated his first wife, Anneke Hermansz, XII. He was also a member of the Chamber of Rhetoric, and (1644) chairman of the Painters' Corporation at Haarlem. At a time when the Dutch nation fought for independence and won it, Hals appears in the ranks of its military gilds. ![]() As a portrait painter second only to Rembrandt in Holland, he displayed extraordinary talent and quickness in the exercise of his art coupled with improvidence in the use of the means which that art secured to him. FRANS HALS (1580?-1666), Dutch painter, was born at Antwerp according to the most recent authorities in 1580 or 1581, and died at Haarlem in 1666.
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