A1 Paintings by Frans Hals
This group comprises the core of the generally accepted paintings that display the marks of the individual execution by Frans Hals throughout, as far as recognizable. Borderline cases are the pictures with limited background areas that can be by Hals or other people, as well as those with later overpainting or restorations covering an originally autograph paint layer. As in some group paintings, there are borderline cases with parts painted by assistants based on Hals’s design and then reworked by himself. This qualification also applies to some paintings under A2.
Frans Hals (I)
Portrait of Willem Coymans (1623-1678), dated 1645
Washington (D.C.), National Gallery of Art (Washington), inv./cat.nr. 1937.1.69
cat.no. A1.114
Photo courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington