Editing Frans Hals (section)

==Influence==
[[File:Cavalier soldier Hals-1624x.jpg|thumb|''[[Laughing Cavalier]]'', 1624, canvas, relined, (H) 83&nbsp;cm x (W) 67&nbsp;cm, [[Wallace Collection]], London.]]
[[File:Frans Hals - Boy with a Lute - The Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|''Boy with a lute'' {{circa|lk=no|1625}} [[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]]
Frans influenced his brother [[Dirck Hals]] (born at Haarlem, 1591–1656), who was also a painter.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Hals, Frans |volume= 12 |last= Konody |first= Paul George |author-link= Paul George Konody | pages = 865&ndash;867; see page 867, last para |quote= Quite in another form, and with much of the freedom of the elder Hals, Dirk Hals, his brother (born at Haarlem, died 1656), is a painter of festivals and ball-rooms...}}</ref> Additionally, five of his sons became painters:
*[[Harmen Hals]] (1611–1669)
*[[Frans Hals the Younger]] (1618–1669)
*[[Jan Hals]] (1620–1654)
*[[Reynier Hals]] (1627–1672)
*[[Nicolaes Hals]] (1628–1686)

Though most of his sons became portrait painters, some of them took up still-life painting or architectural studies and landscapes. Still lifes formerly attributed to his son Frans II have since been re-attributed to other painters, however.<ref name=RKD/><ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Hals, Frans |volume= 12 |last= Konody |first= Paul George |author-link= Paul George Konody | pages = 865&ndash;867; see page 867, last but one para |quote= Of the master’s numerous family none has left a name except Frans Hals the Younger, born about 1622, who died in 1669. His pictures represent cottages and poultry...}}</ref> Hals painted a young woman reaching into a basket in a still life market scene by [[Claes van Heussen]].<ref>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/198313 Young woman with a display of fruit and vegetables] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914203223/https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/198313 |date=14 September 2018 }} in the [[RKD]]</ref>

Other contemporary painters who took inspiration from Hals were,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malerei: Frans Hals Ausstellung – Der Maler des lachenden Menschen - WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/kunst/article252408536/Malerei-Frans-Hals-Ausstellung-Der-Maler-des-lachenden-Menschen.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=DIE WELT |language=de}}</ref> with the main cities they were based in:
*[[Jan Miense Molenaer]] (1609–1668), Haarlem and Amsterdam
*[[Judith Leyster]] (wife of Molenaer, 1609–1660), Haarlem and Amsterdam
*[[Adriaen van Ostade]] (1610–1685), Haarlem
*[[Adriaen Brouwer]] (1605–1638), mostly Antwerp
*[[Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck]] (1597–1662), Haarlem
*[[Bartholomeus van der Helst]] (1613–1670), Amsterdam
*[[Cornelis de Bie (1621–1664)]], Amsterdam

Hals had a large workshop in Haarlem and many students, though 19th century biographers questioned some of his pupils, since their painting styles were so dissimilar to Hals. In his ''De Groote Schouburgh'' (1718–21), [[Arnold Houbraken]] mentions [[Philips Wouwerman]], [[Adriaen Brouwer]], [[Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten]], [[Adriaen van Ostade]] and [[Dirck van Delen]] as students. [[Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne]] was also a student, according to his diary with notes left by his son Laurens Vincentsz van der Vinne.<ref>{{Citation |last=Middelkoop |first=Norbert E. |title=Frans Hals’s Portraits of Painters: A Reconnaissance |date=2024 |work=Frans Hals |pages=92–108 |editor-last=Middelkoop |editor-first=Norbert E. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.22135982.10 |access-date=2025-01-01 |series=Iconography – Technique – Reputation |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-90-485-6606-8 |editor2-last=Ekkart |editor2-first=Rudi E.O.}}</ref> Roestraten was not only a student (the Haarlem archives contain a notarised document, which supports this fact), but he also became a son-in-law of Hals when he married his daughter Adriaentje. The Haarlem portrait painter, [[Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck|Johannes Verspronck]], one of about 10 competing portraitists in Haarlem at the time, possibly studied for some time with Hals.

In terms of style, the closest to Hals's work is the handful of paintings that are ascribed to [[Judith Leyster]], which she often signed. She also 'qualifies' as a possible student, as does her husband, the painter [[Jan Miense Molenaer]].

In the 19th century, his technique influenced the work of [[impressionists]] and [[Realism (art)|realists]] including [[Claude Monet]], [[Édouard Manet]], [[Charles-François Daubigny]], [[Max Liebermann]], [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]], [[Gustave Courbet]], and in the Netherlands, [[Jacobus van Looy]] and [[Isaac Israëls]]. [[Lovis Corinth]] named Hals as his biggest influence.<ref>Lovis Corinth A Feast of Painting, p17, Prestel, Vienna, 2009 {{ISBN|978-3-901508-64-6}}. {{ISBN|978-3-7913-4378-5}}</ref>

The [[Post-Impressionist]] artist [[Vincent van Gogh]] wrote to his brother Theo: 'What a joy it is to see a Frans Hals, how different it is from the paintings – so many of them – where everything is carefully smoothed out in the same manner.' Hals chose not to give a smooth finish to his painting, as most of his contemporaries did, but mimicked the vitality of his subject by using smears, lines, spots, large patches of color and hardly any details.