Frans Hals
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Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens like
Copy of a Self-portrait by Hals
Frans Hals Singing Boy with Flute Google Art Project
Statue of Frans Hals in Florapark, Haarlem
Frans Hals, later finished by Pieter Codde. De Magere Compagnie. 1637. Oil on canvas, 209 x 429 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
René Descartes
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René Descartes was a French polymath, active across philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of science; theology; mathematics, in which he connected the previously
Frans Hals
…breakthrough' came with the life-sized group portrait The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616. His most famous sitter was René Descartes, whom he painted in 1649. Frans Hals married his first wife Anneke Harmensdochter around 1610. Frans was of Catholic birth, however, so their marriage…
Portrait after Frans Hals
Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine.
Portrait of René Descartes by Jan Baptist Weenix, 1647–1649
Portrait of René Descartes by Pieter Nason (1647)