Closing soon: Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibitionLONDON – Frans Hals (circa 1582 or 1583–1666) is one of the greatest masters of the Dutch Golden Age, praised by his contemporaries for his capacity to paint lifelike portraits that seem ‘to live and breathe’. In autumn 2021, The Wallace Collection began a celebration of Hals’s most famous and beloved and enigmatic painting, The Laughing Cavalier (1624) […]
Dutch police say Frans Hals painting stolen for 3rd timeTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – A painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Frans Hals has been stolen – for the third time – from a provincial museum in the central Netherlands. Police said Thursday that Two Laughing Boys was stolen early Wednesday from the Museum Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden in Leerdam, 60 kilometers (about 35 […]
Metropolitan Museum features Frans Hals paintingsNEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. “Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum” – on view from July 26, through Oct. […]
Dutch police make arrest in thefts of Van Gogh, Hals worksTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police arrested a suspect Tuesday in the theft last year of two valuable paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from different museums, a spokeswoman said. The paintings, however, remain missing.