Genre scenes have always been popular in Holland. An honest toiler – be it a merchant or an artisan – loved the simple instructiveness of these pictures. Traditionally, each of

“Banquet of officers of the company of St. George” – was written in 1616, when the artist was about thirty years old. This huge canvas – the first monumental work

The group portrait – “Arrows of the Guild of St. Adrian” – was written by Hals in 1633. The boisterous vitality of the 1627 paintings gives way to a place

Frans Hals was one of the most famous painters of the Dutch Golden Age. The master of the portrait genre created more than 900 works, in which he introduced children,

A man looking at us from a portrait, immediately produces a very nice impression. He seems calm, benevolent and self-confident. Peter Van den Brocke is known for having become one

Stored in the London National Gallery Lady with a fan – a typical custom portrait: there are no fortune tellers and drinkers, which the artist so loved to portray. From

In this work, Hals created an emphatically sensual image. Gypsy – with bare head, loose hair and bold decollete – desperately unlike prudish and dry virtuous matrons, whom we meet

The most significant features of the portrait of the regents are the completed, as it were, final expression in the portrait of the regent, the wealthy warders of the almshouse.

In fact, this portrait is not a portrait: although the young man is often identified as Hamlet, the picture is most likely a traditional for Dutch art allegory “Vanitas”, that