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Hals Frans
(1581/1585–1666)

Frans Hals was born into the family of a cloth-maker of Dutch origin in c. 1581-85. The family lived in Flanders, in Micheln, and Frans was born either in Micheln, or Antwerp. Later the family returned to Holland, to Haarlem, where his younger brother, Dirck, also a future painter, was born in 1591. In 1600-03, Frans studied under Karel van... More...

Netherlands Antilles, 2007, Isaak Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Lean

St. Vincent, 2001, Isaak Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Lean