Frans Hals Junior

Frans Hals the Younger, Frans actually Franszoon neck, and Frans Hals II, ( baptized May 16, 1618 in Haarlem, † April 1669 ) was a Dutch painter of the so -called Golden Age. He developed artistically and probably also stylistically in his father's Frans Hals immediate vicinity.

Life

Frans Hals the Younger was a son of the painter Frans Hals and his second wife Lysbeth Reynier. About his life today little is known. He was trained by his father and was probably active in its style. On November 29, 1643 he married Hester Jansdr. van Groeneveld.

Artistic creation

The artistic works of the younger Frans Hals is completely in the dark. All attributions to him currently based on speculation and can be assigned nor a critique of style either by documents. For a long time believed the research to be able to assign all the signed with the monogram of the Father images that did not reach the high standard of quality experts. One method that is now regarded as completely baseless. Furthermore, an attempt was made signed in a row with FSRHALS or FRHLS paintings and drawings to recognize work of the younger Frans Hals, although the works are recognizable no relation to the works of the Haarlem school and especially the art of older Frans Hals. Only Abraham Bredius published in 1917 the artist who was behind this signature: François Ryckhals.

Moreover, it was also considered the younger Frans Hals assign the few paintings of his father, which are signed with a FHR and resolve this monogram as Frans Hals Franszoon. This thesis is rejected by other researchers and interpreted the monogram as an abbreviation for Frans Hals Fecit. If, however, the first interpretation be true, then this would mean that the work of the younger Frans Hals which his father so closely related that they can hardly tell them apart.

For a long time was the focus of the research on a painting depicting a boy warrior in the Saint Petersburg Hermitage (oil on canvas, 113 x 82.5 cm - Inv 986 ), which, although having with FH or according to other sources F. neck is signed, in the spelling but different from the way of the father. The image is regarded as a good and efficient working artist. This write to the younger Frans Hals, although often held to be possible also in the literature, is rejected by Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorisches Documentatie.