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Frans Hals
The Merry Toper, oil on canvas by Frans Hals, c. 1628â30; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Frans Hals spent practically his entire life in Haarlem, Netherlands.1
Although he was born in Antwerp, his family moved to Haarlem by 1591 at the latest. Aside from a brief visit to Antwerp in 1616, he remained in Haarlem for the duration of his life, where he became a prominent portraitist of the local bourgeoisie and a member of the city's St. George militia company.12