Discover painter, draftsperson Frans Hals (I)

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: Hals, Frans Franchoisz

Monogram: FH

FH in ligature

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish, South Netherlandish
After the conquest of Antwerp on August 15, 1585 the Hals family moved to Haarlem before July 1586. In the same month the name was deleted from the register of taxpayers with the note that the family had left Antwerp (Saur 2010).

Born: Antwerp (city) 1582/1583

Deceased: Haarlem (city) 1666-08-26/1666-08-29
Frans Hals was buried on 1 September 1666 in the choir of Saint Bavo's Church in Haarlem (Van Thiel-Stroman 2006, p. 181). Houbraken mentions 29 August 1666 as burial date.

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Franchois Fransz. Hals from Malines/Mechelen (ca. 1542-1610), cloth-dealer and his second wife, Adriaentje van Geertenryck (Antwerp c. 1552-Haarlem after November 1616); married 1) to Anneke Harmensdr. Abeels (1590-1615) and 2) to Lysbeth Reyniersdr. (1593-1675) in Spaarndam on 12 February 1617; father of Harmen Fransz. Hals (1611-1669), Frans Hals II (ca. 1618-1669), Johannes Hals (1620-1674), Adriaentje Fransdr. Hals (born 1623, married in Amsterdam 1654 to painter Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten (1630-1700), Jacob Hals (born 1624), Reinier Fransz. Hals (1627-1672), Nicolaes Hals (1628-1686) and Maria Hals (born 1631)

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579 hits in RKDimages as artist
190 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2294 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
148 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Haarlem (stad) 1591 - 1666
His brother Dirck was christened on 19 March 1591 in the Grote Kerk/Sint-Bavokerk: first mention of the presence in Haarlem of the family. Frans was a member of Saint Luke's Guild in 1610; appointed head of the guild on January 16, 1644 for one year; he was constantly in dire need of money: 1661 released from the obligation to pay the guild (Saur 2010).
Antwerpen (stad) 1616

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Mander, Karel van (I)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Bie, Cornelis de (1622-1664)
Brouwer, Adriaen
Hals, Claes
Hals, Dirck
Hals, Frans (II)
Hals, Harmen
Hals, Jan (I)
Hals, Reynier
Leyster, Judith
Molenaer, Jan Miense
Ostade, Adriaen van
Roestraeten, Pieter van
Verspronck, Johannes Cornelisz.
Vinne, Vincent Laurensz. van der (I)

Frans Hals was not the teacher of Dirck van Delen, as mentioned in Houbraken 1721 (based on a misinterpretation of the text by De Bie, who wrote this about Philips Wouwerman on the same page).
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Busch, Wilhelm
Coclers, Louis Bernard
Lentz, Stanislaw
Sprang, J. van der
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Bellows, George Wesley
Boldini, Giovanni
Chase, William Merrit
Cipper, Giacomo Francesco
Fiigenschoug, Elias
Grimou, Alexis
Koning-Hawley, Wilhelmina Douglas de
Laguillermie, Frédéric (1841-1934)
Lenain, Antoine (I)
Maryan
Rongier, Jeanne
Rustin, Jean
Staverenus, Petrus

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, portrait, child portrait, Christian religious scene, peasant genre

Medium/technique: oil paint

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Haarlem)
since 1610

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 190 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 11, 90-96, 147, 159, 252; vol. 2 (1719), p. 131, 191, 2010, vol. 3 (1721), p. 309
Bode 1883 , 37-94 (copy with annotations by Hofstede de Groot: RKD 200301435)
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 3 (1910)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 15 (1922), p. 531-534
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 8 s.a. [1953], p. 215-218
Sutton 1984 , p. 65-66
Van der Willigen/De Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998)
Witt Checklist 1978
Miedema 1980
Blankert/Slatkes 1986 , p. 267-270
Slive/Biesboer et al. 1989 , p. 371-414 (I. van Thiel-Stroman, 'The Frans Hals Documents: Written and Printed Sources, 1582-1679')
Biesboer/Welu 1993 (eng) , p. 234-235 (I. van Thiel-Stroman, 'Frans Hals')
Luijten et al. 1993 , p. 306-307 and passim
Briels 1997 , p. 333-334
Goosens 2001 , p. 422
Biesboer/Köhler et al. 2006 , p. 178-184 (I. van Thiel-Stroman, 'Frans Franchoisz Hals')
Saur 1992- , vol. 68 (2010), p. 355
Buijsen/Dumas/Manuth 2012 , 141-150 (M. de Winkel, 'Frans Hals's Portraits of Michiel de Wael and Cunera van Baersdorp and of Jan de Wael and Aeltje Dircksdr. Pater Identified')
Korsten 2017 , p. 83-101
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

A. Bredius, 'De ouders van Frans Hals', Oud-Holland 32 (1914), p. 216
C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Twee teruggevonden schilderijen door Frans Hals', Oud-Holland 39 (1921), p. 65-68
A. Bredius, 'Archiefsprokkels betreffende Frans Hals', Oud-Holland 41 (1923-'24), p. 19-31
E. de Jongh, P.J. Vinken, 'Frans Hals als voortzetter van een emblematische traditie. Bij het Huwelijksportret van Isaac Massa en Beatrix van der Laen', Oud Holland 76 (1961), p. 117-152
S. Slive, 'Frans Hals Studies', Oud Holland 76 (1961), p. 173-200
P.J. Vinken, E. de Jongh, 'De boosaardigheid van Hals' regenten en regentessen', Oud Holland 78 (1963), p. 1-27
C. Grimm, 'Frans Hals und seine "Schule"', Münchner Jahrbuch Bildender Kunst 3.F.22 (1971), p. 146-178
R.E.O. Ekkart, review of Grimm 1972, Oud Holland 87 (1973), p. 252-255
J. van Roey, 'De familie van Frans Hals. Nieuwe gegevens uit Antwerpen', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 12 (1972), p. 145-170
F.S. Jowell, 'Thoré-Bürger and the revival of Frans Hals', Art Bulletin 56 (1974), p. 101-117
M. Thierry de Bye Dólleman, 'Vier verschillende families "Hals" te Haarlem', Jaarboek Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie 28 (1974), p. 182-212
J. Storm van Leeuwen, 'The concept of pictology and its application to works by Frans Hals', Authentication in the visual arts. A multidisciplinary symposium (12/3/1977), Amsterdam 1979, p. 57-92
M. Westermann, 'Jan Steen, Frans Hals and the edges of portraiture', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 46 (1995), p. 299-331
Chr. Atkins, 'Frans Hals's Virtuoso Brushwork', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 54 (2003), p. 280-307
Q. Buvelot, B. Ducos, 'A rediscovered portrait by Frans Hals', The Burlington Magazine 156 (2014), no. 1331, p. 102-103
F. Grijzenhout, I. Jonkhoff, M. Kramer, D. de Bruijne, 'Frans Hals in mennonitischen Brauerkreisen. Die Bildnisse eines unbekannten Ehepaars im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum', Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 75 (2014), p. 253-266
M. Roscam Abbing, 'Theodorus Schrevelius, Petrus Scriverius en Frans Hals. Opmerkingen bij enkele nieuwe Hals-documenten', Haerlem Jaarboek 2013 (2014), p. 63-98
D.P. Weller, review of Slive 2014, The Burlington Magazine 147 (2015), no. 1343, p. 106-107
F. Grijzenhout, 'Frans Hals: de oude kapitein Soop en zijn zonen', Maandblad Amstelodamum 102 (2015), no. 1, p. 14-29
E. Buijsen, '"Foolish wisdom: Adriaen van de Venne and Frans Hals's "Pekelharing"', The Burlington Magazine 158 (2016), p. 94-100
M. Jonker, 'Modern onderzoek naar de handen van Hals', Kunstschrift 61 (2017) no. 3, p. 48-49

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Archive location: archief (verzameling) Cornelis Hofstede de Groot
archief Le Roy

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1991-12-15; Last modified date: 2023-08-25

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