How did Frans Hals transform portraiture? | National Gallery

Curator Bart Cornelis asks, 'What makes Frans Hals one of the greatest portrait painters in history?' This incredible 17-century Dutch artist captured true personalities in paint.

From drawing with paint to capturing his sitters smiling and laughing, find out why Frans Hals deserves his place in the canon of great portrait painters.

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