Frans Hals (1582–1666) was one of the foremost portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age, yet little has been written about his lively family group portraiture. Inspired by recent discoveries about one of the families Hals painted, this catalog reunites the surviving sections of Van Campen Family Portrait in a Landscape and Three Children of the Van Campen Family, two works that originally formed one composition, but were separated for unknown reasons after the artist’s death. The book examines the finer features of Hals’s four family portraits—discussing how they were constructed, what symbolic elements they incorporate, and what we know about the sitters—and places these works in the wider context of the author’s oeuvre.

Frans Hals: Family Portraits

Nichols, Lawrence W.

De Belie, Liesbeth

Biesboer, Pieter

Arts & Photography

Hirmer Publishers

Painting Family: The De Brays: Master Painters of 17th Century Holland

Lammertse, Friso

Meyer, Fred

W-Books

Painting Family: The De Brays, Master Painters of 17th Century Holland.

Lammertse, Friso, Etc.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

<p>Pieter Claesz is one of the most important still-life painters of the Dutch seventeenth century. His work is noted for the realistic portrayal of the various elements of the still-life, almost to the point of being tangible. The sobriety preached at the time (from around 1630 onwards) is expressed in the monochrome pallet of his modest little banquets and breakfasts. His humble ingredients: bread, cheese, wine, a half-eaten herring, offered in pewter, glass, and porcelain tablewares, seldom varied. His still lifes were balanced, detailed, and tranquil. In 1620, Claesz took up residence in Haarlem where he founded a school of still-life painting. This book focuses on the period 1620-1645 in which Claesz developed the still-life to perfection. He was an artist that transformed the daily and the mundane into a momentous scene emanating a radiant beauty, using the simplest of means. Approximately fifty works are shown that well represent this important artist's evolution.</p>

Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life

Klemm, Christian

Brunner-Bulst, Martina

Gregory, Henry D.

Reference

Uitgeverij Waanders

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