Frans Hals Paintings 1580
- 1666
Netherlands, Baroque Painter
Portrait of an Elderly Man, 1627
Oil on canvas, 115x91 cm
The Frick Collection
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OIL PAINTING: Portrait of an Elderly Man, 1627
Hals is best known for his portraits, mainly of wealthy citizens. Hals also painted large group portraits, many of which showed civil guards. He was a Baroque painter who practiced an intimate realism with a radically free approach. Hals paintings illustrate the various strata of society, like ihn this oil portrait - Portrait of an Elderly Man; banquets or meetings of officers, sharpshooters, guildsmen, admirals, generals, burgomasters, merchants, lawyers, and clerks, itinerant players and singers, gentlefolk, fishwives and tavern heroes.