The identity of the sitter in this wonderful portrait by one of the most renowned Dutch Golden Age painters in history remains uncertain. There is a general theory, though, about who this man could be, and in my opinion, it’s the correct one as well. Frans Hals (1582-1666) was one of the most notable portraitists …
Frans Hals paintings
This Dutch Golden Age painter was born in a major port city in modern-day Belgium, but he lived and worked almost his entire life in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Frans Hals (1582-1666) was the son of a cloth merchant from Antwerp who had to flee with his family to the north during a year-long …