HALS, Frans II

b. 1618 Haarlem · d. 1669 Haarlem · Baroque

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Frans Hals, II (Frans Hals the Younger), Dutch painter, part of a family of painters. He was one of the painter sons of Frans Hals who specialized in genre paintingGLOSSARYThe depiction of scenes from everyday life. Elements of everyday life had long had a role in religious works; pictures in which such elements were the subject of a painting developed in the 16th century with such artists as Pieter Bruegel. Then Carracci and Caravaggio developed genre painting in Italy, but it was in Holland in the 17th century that it became an independent form with its own major achievements, Vermeer being one of its finest exponents..

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  author       = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
  title        = {HALS, Frans II},
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  date         = {2026-09-08},
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  urldate      = {2026-09-08},
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