Synopsis
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Antwerp claims the honor of having given Frans Hals birth is merely an accident of his origin. His ancestry was Dutch; from the outset of his working life he had become a citizen of Holland; and the characteristics of his art are decidedly opposed to those of the Flemish school, with Rubens at its head. For two centuries before the artists birth the Hals family, as its records prove, had occupied a place of high consideration among the patrician houses of Haarlem. Misfortunes consequent upon the war compelled the parents of Frans, in the latter part of the sixteenth century, to quit their native city and seek an asylum in A ntwerp. There, and not, as some biographers have asserted, at Mechlin, Frans was born, probably in the year 1584. Nothing is known certainly of his early years; he studied probably at Antwerp in the beginning of his training, and, on the return of his family to Haarlem, entered the school of Karel van Mander. The date of this return can only be conjectured; we ought probably to place it before 1608, if we are to suppose that the Joost Hals of A ntwerp, who in that year was charged before the Haarlem magistrates with drunkenness and disorderly conduct in the streets, was a member of the same family. It must have been about the year 1610 that Hals married a young lady named A nneke Hermanszoon. On the second of September, 161 1, occurred the baptism of their son Harman Hals. His domestic life with this lady cannot have been very happy; on the twentieth of February, 1616, we find him summoned before the magistrates for ill-treating her. He received on this occasion a severe reprimand for his drunken habits and violence, expressed much contrition, and was let off on the understanding that a repetition of the offence would be visited with severe punishment. He was relieved from temptation by the death of his wife, which happened only a few day
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
Présentation de l'éditeur
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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