Frans Hals Life Work Restoration

Light general wear. May have light notes/highlighting. shelf wear. bumped edges. worn cover. Paperback. Frans Hals is one of the Low Countries most celebrated painters, his name invariably mentioned in the same breath with such illustrious colleagues as Rubens, Van Dyck,Rembrandt and Vermeer. Not much is know about the life of Frans Hals. What little was written about him was always at second hand and his early years are shrouded in mystery. His work itself raises important no preliminary sketches or drawings have come to light; is this evidence of the ease and quickness with which he painted? But who taught Hals his fluent brushwork? This style, conspicuously unique the seventeenth century, allowed Hals to capture for all time directly and spontaneously the people around children, folk types and particularly the prosperous burghers of Harlem. .