Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Dutch Baroque
Date and Place of Birth:
(sometime around) 1580, Micheln, Flanders or Antwerp
Life:
Like all artists of the Baroque, Hals portrayed humans in everyday life, having human emotions. He brought a warm congeniality to his subjects. His portraits are realistic but, if one looks closely, one notices that his brushwork was suggestive at times - he was not using the normal, careful rendering of the day, but a technique which was far ahead of its time.
Important Works:
- The Laughing Cavalier, 1624
- Malle Babbe, ca. 1630-33
Date and Place of Death:
September 1, 1666, Haarlem, Netherlands
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