Hals makes for joy. His work is a metaphor for life and promise. Left: Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, c. 1622, by Frans Hals. Oil on canvas. (©Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ...

In an interview with Apollo in 2017, four years before his death, the American artist Wayne Thiebaud claimed that ‘the art world is not much interested in humour […] to its disadvantage’.

There’s a Frans Hals double portrait of a musical boy and girl (ca. 1620s) estimated at $6 million to $8 million, as well as a Gerrit Dou work (1631–32), purchased from Hornstein, depicting an ...

They are captured singing and playing, in a fleeting moment of tenderness. Now a pair of unusually intimate portraits by 17th century Dutch master Frans Hals are on public sale – if you have at least ...

and Claude Monet—rediscovered Frans Hals in the mid-1800s. These artists were particularly struck by the free-flowing, audaciously visible brushstrokes of Hals’ work. Compared to the idealized ...

Posy of Flowers, with a Beetle, on a Stone LedgePICTORIALMany of us are familiar with titans of the Dutch Golden Age like ...