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A family of artists · some of us have been creating for 70 yearsThree painters take your first line · nothing to sign up forOld Masters to the Moderns, 1470 to now · the face, the dog and the house kept
Painted a family of artists
Painted here after Frans Hals (1582–1666)
Frans Hals (1582–1666)Dutch Golden Age · 1620s–1650sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures

Dutch Golden Age 1582–1666

Frans Hals

Laughing, alla prima, the brush still wet.

Gone 360 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.

Default palette: Delft Blue

The studio

What are we painting?

The canvas

Painter 132

Masterworks 78

Tap one to see it large. Paint after it and its hand is the painting’s; its subject never is.

Palette

How the palettes are sampled

One painting a day is free, no account. Three painters take it; the first to finish hangs.

What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.

Painted here 3 judged

The hand, three times over

Each of these was painted in this studio in this hand and passed the art gate before it hung. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.

Painted here after Frans Hals, golden render
art gate, round 1
Painted here after Frans Hals, golden render
art gate, round 1
Painted here after Frans Hals, golden render
art gate, round 1