PICTURE FOR THE PEOPLE.
PURCHASED BY NATIONAL GALLERY. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— London, August 25. It is understood that the trustees of the National Gallery have paid £25,000 for a portrait group attributed to Frans Hals.
Franz Hals, the elder, portrait and genre painter, is usually regarded as the founder of the Dutch scholl of genre painting. His portraits are full of character, and he was a past master in catching and transferring to canvas the lightest shades of passing expression. Of his portrait groups, eight noble examples are preserved in the Museum, at Haarlem, the fineet being that dated 1633, representing the officers of the corps of St. Adrian. It is another instance of the irony of fate that a painter, whose works now command enormous prices, should, in his lifetime, have come to extreme poverty. Shortly before his death the municipality of Haarlem recognised hie genius with a paltry pension of 200 florins, which kept him from starvation. Nearly 250 years after his death one specimen of his art is readily bought for £25,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13839, 27 August 1908, Page 5
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