Hals is an avatar of style as a free-floating value, independent of its subjects.
Hals figures into history as a stylist, but also a contractor to the bourgeoisie.
Make sure you refer to it as the Private Sector Leasing Scheme (PSLS) or Housing Association Leasing Schemes (HALS).
Professor Grimm's thesis was confirmed by the other great Hals scholar of the day, Seymour Slive of Harvard University.
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Sotheby's, for example, has separated a husband-and-wife pair of portraits by Frans Hals in the hope that they will make more apart than together.
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ABSTRACT:THE ART WORLD review of Frans Hals at the Metropolitan Museum.
Dave Hickey, a maverick art historian and critic who lives in Las Vegas and who likes to provoke, compares Rockwell to Hogarth, Vermeer and Frans Hals.
Beyond his predecessors, Hals was the first virtuoso of the visible brushstroke, but no other Old Master seems to have made art so little for his own fulfillment.
Above his left shoulder, clearly visible, is Hals's monogram.
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Frans Hals, with vivacious portraits, and Jacob van Ruisdael, with grand yet somehow confiding landscapes, are shown at their best, as is Jan Steen, if, unlike me, you relish his over-the-top bawdry.
Mr Sewell suggested it might be by Hals.
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The exhibition, officially titled Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis at the de Young also features 34 other paintings by Dutch Golden Age masters, including works by Rembrandt, Peiter Claesz, Jacob van Ruisdael and Frans Hals.
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