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Frans Hals
The Merry Toper, oil on canvas by Frans Hals, c. 1628â30; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Frans Hals was born in Antwerp, which was then part of the Spanish Netherlands and is located in modern-day Belgium.1