"Hals" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a flourishing port, second only to London and Bristol, and still retaining in its ivy-clad fort some vestiges of its former glories, it requires the eye of imagination to summon back the days when (as Hals tells us) it manned and sent forth more than forty ships to the siege of Calais, ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Franz Hals belonged to a family which for two hundred years had been highly respected in Haarlem in the Netherlands. The father of the painter left that town for political reasons in 1579, and it was at Antwerp that Franz was born sometime between that date and 1585. His parents took him ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... of Frank Hals the portrait painter may observe the composition of a face, the features well put together as the painters express it, from whence proceeds that strong marked character of individual nature which is so remarkable in his portraits, ...
— Seven Discourses on Art • Joshua Reynolds
... der muntre Seifensieder, Erlernte viele schne Lieder, Und sang, mit unbesorgtem Sinn, Vom Morgen bis zum Abend hin. Sein Tagwerk konnt' ihm Nahrung bringen; 5 Und wann er ass, so musst' er singen, Und wann er sang, so war's mit Lust; Aus vollem Hals und freier Brust. Beim Morgenbrot, beim Abendessen, Blieb Ton und Triller unvergessen; 10 Der schallte recht, und seine Kraft Durchdrang die halbe Nachbarschaft. Man horcht, man fragt: Wer singt schon wieder? Wer ist's? Der muntre Seifensieder. ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... the title "Portrait of a Lady," under which it had been exhibited at the Salon many years ago. It was by a young artist, young then, named Sargent. He had the courage of his method, this youngster, no less than Hals, who also worked his wonders with little paint when this suited his genius best. The gauze of the gown where it blended with the background at the edge of the line of arm was so thin, seemingly made by a single brush-stroke, that it almost ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... after two hundred years, the paint stands out in lumps—and this is one of his masterpieces. So again, if you will compare the manipulation in the work of Raphael with that of Tintoretto, that of Rubens with that of Velasquez, or most markedly, the work of Frans Hals with that of Gerard Dou, you will see that the greatest extremes of handling are consistent ...
— The Painter in Oil - A complete treatise on the principles and technique - necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors • Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
... "Carriere is also a sculptor!" Slowly and from the most unwilling sitter he extorted the secret of a soul. We speak of John Sargent as the master psychologist among portraitists, a superiority he himself has never assumed; but that magnificent virtuoso, an aristocratic Frans Hals, never gives us the indefinite sense of things mystic beneath the epidermis of poor, struggling humanity as does Eugene Carriere. Sargent is too magisterial a painter to dwell upon the infinite little soul-stigmata of men and women. Who can tell the renunciations made by the Frenchman ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
... his time? If Van der Helst instead of seating his arquebusiers had made them move in any manner whatever, do not doubt that he would have given us the truest if not the finest indications of their ways. And as for Frans Hals, you may imagine with what clearness and order, and how naturally he would have disposed the scene; how piquant, lively, ingenious, abundant, and magnificent he would have been. The idea conceived by Rembrandt then is one of the most ordinary, and I would venture ...
— Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Esther Singleton |
