
Frans Hals (1582–1666)Dutch Golden Age · 1620s–1650sPainted here in this style, never copied from their pictures
Dutch Golden Age 1582–1666
Frans Hals
Laughing, alla prima, the brush still wet.
Gone 360 years, so the style is everyone’s: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.
Default palette: Delft Blue
What shall we paint?The line above becomes the first.
Painted here 3 judged
The style, three times over
Each of these was painted in this studio in this style and judged against the real paintings before we showed it. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.






