#frans hals portraits

[hornyforpoetry]

...You know I even think that she stared like you...

...She used to just stand there and stare...

...And roll her eyes right up to heaven...

The amazing microexpressions of Frans Hals

[lionofchaeronea]

St. Matthew the Evangelist (from The Four Evangelists), Frans Hals, ca. 1625

[swimmingcreatortyrant]

Oh, another empty... WHAT?

+ bonus

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Historical Portraits of Children // The Truth is a Cave – The Oh Hellos

Four Children Making Music – attributed to the master of the Countess of Warwick, 1565 // Three Children with a Dog or Two Sisters and a Brother of the Artist – Sofonisba Anguissola, 1570-1590 // The Children of Philip III of Spain (Ferdinand, Alfonso, and Margarita) – Bartolomé González y Serrano, 1612 // Three Children with a Goat-Cart – Frans Hals, 1620 // The Balbi Children – Anthony van Dyck, 1625-1627 // The Three Eldest Children of Charles I – Anthony van Dyck, 1635-1636 // Five Eldest Children of Charles I – Anthony van Dyck, 1637 // Portrait of the Children of Habert de Montmor – Philippe de Champaigne, 1649 // Group Portrait of Charlotte Eleonora zu Dohna, Amalia Louisa zu Dohna, and Friedrich Christoph zu Dohna-Carwinden – Pieter Nason, 1667 // The Graham Children – William Hogarth, 1742 // Portrait of Sir Edward Walpole’s Children – Stephen Slaughter, 1747 // The Bateson Children – Strickland Lowry, 1762 // The Gower Family: The Five Youngest Children of the 2nd Earl Gower – George Romney, 1776-1777 // Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France, and Her Children – Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1787 // The Marsham Children – Thomas Gainsborough, 1787 // The Oddie Children – William Beechey, 1789 // Three Siblings – Johann Nepomuk Mayer, 1846 // Happy Children – Paul Barthel, 1898 // My Children – Joaquín Sorolla, 1904 // The Truth is a Cave – The Oh Hellos

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Frans Hals - Malle Babbe (ca. 1633)

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Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull, Frans Hals, 1610-14

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Frans Hals (c. 1582-1666) "The Lute Player" (1623-1624) Oil on canvas Dutch Golden Age Located in Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

[historyfagjoshi]

The idea of their friendship cracks me up so much

[scottishsquirrel]

Frans Hals  1582-1666

Portrait of a Man, possibly a Clergyman, c. 1657 - c. 1660

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 

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after hals - graphite | 15 x 10

[foundatthemuseum]

The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals - 1624

(information, thoughts and sources below the break)

Found in The Wallace Collection, London, The Laughing Cavalier is probably a portrait you've seen as in a print or referenced in film. Despite it's name however, the sitter isn't depicted laughing and was almost certainly not a cavalier. The portrait gained it's name in the Victorian era and stuck to this day.

Frans Hals paintings were widely regarded in his lifetime and by those after, an 1885 letter from Vincent van Gogh to his younger brother Theo van Gogh enthuses about Hals' use of colour, particularly noting the depth of tone in his blacks, writing that  "Frans Hals has no less than twenty-seven blacks" which is especially apparent in this painting along with the remarkable embroidery.

The portrait can be seen at The Wallace Collection in London, as well as online as part of the Frans Hals: The Male Portrait exhibition.

(opinions) I loved being able to see this portrait in person, on a good screen you can see the difference in the blacks but as someone who had only ever seen it in low-quality prints it honestly stunned me when I saw it in person. Up-close you can really see every little detail and regardless who the sitter was (we have theories, but it's not certain who he was) he has a level of charisma in this portrait that's very charming.

Sources:

The Laughing Cavaler image - The Wallace Collection

Vincent Van Gough's letter - Van Gough's letters Webexhibits

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Diploma main diploma 3/3

"Dutch baroque masters portraits" Reproduction

Frans Hals -portrait of John Livingston

100x70 oil on canvas

1.2022 - 2.2022

Yea 1 month i have only 3 pics of it cuz i finished it in 20hours ( 1 pic was 1 session and it applies to previous ones also exept Vermeers cuz they told us to do a lot so sometimes i did 2x times then but this and later Vermeersand whole Rembrandt i had 1 pic after finishing session )also it was the most fun suprisingly to paint and relaxing i did a lot progress fast and its the only one where the face is finished... Well almost to my standards but my teacher told me its too well enough for this and "time n stuff " For it , its a contract for sure compared to the last 2 with bouth time spend on it and how finished the face is xddd

[lionofchaeronea]

Portrait of a Young Woman Aged 28, Frans Hals, 1634

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[papillon-de-mai]

Frans Hals — Portrait of A Woman (Marie Larp). ca.1635–1638. detail

[artschoolglasses]

Portrait of a Woman, Frans Hals, 1635-38