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 HALS HALS, FRANS, the elder, horn in Ant- werp in 1584, died in Haarlem, Aug. 26, 1(566. Dutch school ; portrait and genre painter of great re- n o vn ; pupil of Kurd Van Marnier. A most influential teacher and founder of a national style, and a portrait paint- er to be ranked with the greatest mas- ters. Addicted to drunkenness, according to Houbrakcn, he was never prosperous, despite his long and active life and his un- usual talent, which excited Van Dyck's ad- miration. In IGGt, reduced to sheer want, he was supported by the municipality and pensioned. Flesh-colouring unequalled ; handling broad, masterly, and vigourous. Pictures unequal in merit ; his immense facility sometimes led him to be. careless and sketchy. Works: Joh. 15ogurdus (1614); Banquet of Officers (1616), do. (1627), do. (1627), Assembly of Officers (1633), Officers of St. George's Guild (1(5:5!)), Regents of St. Elizabeth's Hospital (1641), Regents of Old Men's Hospital (1664), do. (1(564), Haarlem Museum ; portrait of himself and his sec- ond wife (1624), The Fool (1(525), Jolly Toper (1630), Old Lady (16:5!)), Museum, Amsterdam ; Archery-piece (1637), City Hall, ib. ; Portrait of John Barclay (before 1(510), Athena'um, ib.; Male Portrait (1(555), Six Collection, ib. ; do., Rotterdam Muse- um ; Portraits of Dutch Nobleman and Wife (1(525), Hague Museum ; Male Por- trait, do. (1(545), Museum, Brussels ; Sing- ing Boys, Merry Tippler, Arenberg Gallery, ib.; De Strandlooper van Haarlem (1(540), Male Portrait (1635), do. (1640), Antwerp Museum ; Laughing Girl (1630), Portrait of a Lady, Portraits (3) of Beresteyn Family (1629, 1630), Louvre, Paris ; Topers, Male ] and Female Portrait, Rothan Gallery, ib. ; Male Portrait (162(5), Old Lady, Young Lady (1634), Buffoon, Laughing Girl (1635), Rorn- melpotspeeler, Man and Wife (1638), do. (1643), Count Mnis/ech, ib. ; Laughing Girl (1645), Lille Museum ; Male Portrait (1632), Bordeaux Museum ; Singing Boy (1625), Male Portraits (1625, 1627, 1656, 1660), Man and Wife (1627), Child with Nurse, Toper (1(530), Hille Bobbe van Haarlem (about 1650), Berlin Museum ; Nobleman and Wife (1620), Two Boys making Music (1(525), Toper (1(540), Male Portraits (3, 1655, 1(560), Laughing Girl, Cassel Gallery; Male Portraits (2, 1630), Dresden Gallery ; do. (1(535, 1655), Gotha Museum ; Young Man (1624), Man and Wife (1(538), Stiiclel Gallery, Frankfort ; Boy playing the Flute (1(525), Ki'migsbcrg Museum ; do., and Boy Drinking, Male Portrait (1630), Schwerin Gallery ; Man and Wife (1(543), Stettin Mu- seum ; Male Portrait (1650), Museum, Vi- enna ; do. (2, 1630, 1644), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. ; do. (1655), Old Lady (1638), Buron'llothscbild, ib.; Male Portrait (1(550), National Gallery, Pcsth ; do. (4, 1635, 1650, 1(560), Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Old Woman's Head (1645), National Gallery, London ; do. (1640), Bridgewater Gallery, ib.; Male Portrait (1630), Buckingham Pal- ace, ib. ; do. (1624), Manchester House, ib.; do. (1635), Marquis of Bute, ib. ; Artist's Portrait (1622), Devonshire House, ib ; Herring Seller (1(516), Lord Northbrook, ib. ; Male Portrait (1628), Hampton Court Pal- ace ; Ilille. Bobbe (?, probably by Frans, the younger), Meeting of Trained Bands to cele- brate Peace of Miinster (with Dirk Hals), Metropolitan Museum, New York ; Por- trait (?), Historical Society, ib. ; other pict- ures attributed to him in the galleries of Munich, Stuttgart, Brunswick, Weimar, Old- enburg, etc., are not by him. Of his seven sons five were painters : Herman (1611-69), H painted conversation pieces ; Johannes (died in 1650), fig- ures and genre scenes ; Frans (see following article) ; Reg- nier (1627-89), genre scenes; Nicolaas (born in 1628), genre and land- scape. Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 451 ; Ch. S02