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The last one we can distinguish while comparing commissioned portraits, such as The Laughing Cavalier (1624) and Portrait of Jacob Pietersz Olycan (1625) to genre portraits from the same period, such as Portrait of a Jester with Lute (ca.1623-1624) and Boy with a Lute (ca. For commissioned portraits, his style was smooth and refined, while generic subjects he painted in a more loose and expressive style. In earlier stages, Hals worked simultaneously in two stylistic modes. The trip was significant because it acquainted Hals with works of Flemish artists like Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, and Anthony van Dyck. In the same year, the artist also traveled to Antwerp, where he spent approximately four months. Here, Hals successfully captures the individual characteristics of the twelve sitters in the lively, joyful atmosphere of the banquet. In 1616 Hals received his first significant commission and created the first group portrait of his career, Banquet of the St. However, Anneke died in 1615, and two years later, Hals married his second wife, Lysbeth Reyniers. In 1610, Hals joined the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke, and around the same time, he married his first wife, Anneke Harmensdochter. They settled in Haarlem, where Hals will reside for the rest of his life.

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Soon after, his family fled to the north to escape Spanish domination. Hals was born in 1582 or 1583 in Antwerp. In this way, Hals became particularly appealing to the modern sensibilities of 19th-century artists, such as Claude Monet, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Vincent van Gogh. In his writings, Bürger did not only renew the interest in Hals's work, but he also connected Hals's art to the artwork produced by the contemporaries of the time. Bürger recognized the virtuosity of Hals's expressive style and praised the spontaneity, vitality, and freedom of his art. One of the essential characteristics of Hals's art is a sketchy aesthetic exhibited in loose and unblended brushstrokes. Only in the 19th century, his art was appreciated again, mainly due to the work of French journalist and art critic, Theophile Thoré-Bürger. Although Hals enjoyed success during his lifetime, he was largely forgotten by the generations that followed. Frans Hals is one of the most celebrated and prominent painters of the Dutch Golden Age, probably only second to Rembrandt or Vermeer.















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