Frans Hals observed the smile and laugh in all phases. Despite its robust joviality this familiar portrait from the Wallace collection is a penetrating and realistic study of character treated in a bold and broad manner. Frans Hals, the elder, is regarded as the founder of the Dutch school of genre-painting, that is of paintings from everybody life. Both his brother, Dirk and his sons, of whom Frans Hals, the younger, became best known were painters of considerable ability.
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