Hals, Frans, an eminent Dutch portrait-painter, born at Antwerp; is considered to be the founder of the Dutch school of genre-painting; his portraits are full of life and vigour; Vandyck alone among his contemporaries was considered his superior (1581‒1666).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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