Young Man with a Skull
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Title : Young Man with a Skull Artist : Frans Hals Year : ca. 1626 Type : Oil on canvas Size : - Location: National Gallery, London |
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HALS, Frans
C1581-1585 Antwerp – 1666 Haarlem. Baroque
Frans Hals was the son of a cloth-maker from Mechelen. He moved to Haarlem at a young age. Apart from one or two short visits to Antwerp and Amsterdam, Hals never left Haarlem. He was highly esteemed in Haarlem, as is shown by the fact that he received altogether eight commissions for the large civic guard pictures. But Hals was often in debt as his portraits were not ‘elegant’ enough for contemporary taste, so that he never became a fashionable painter. Also, he had to provide for ten children from his two marriages. In 1652 he had to auction his furniture and his paintings to pay the baker, and shortly before his death he received poor relief in the form of money and peat. It is often maintained that his poverty was the result of his extravagant life-style, but there is no evidence for this.
Frans Hals is the most important Dutch portrait painter. His surviving work comprises about 300 paintings, and the majority of these are portraits and group portraits. Hals certainly was the foremost painter of the Dutch group portrayal. His special devices used for livening up the picture are most evident in his genre portraits (The Gypsy Girl, The Merry Drinker, Malle Babbe).
With a spontaneous seemingly improvised brushstroke, he produces light reflections on the faces, objects, cloth and lace, thus creating an effect of immediacy as well as vitality.
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