Lecture 5: Frans Hals s Portrait of a Preacher: Virtuosity and the Rough Style

Lecture 5 Frans Halss Portrait of a Preacher (ca. 1660): Virtuosity and the Rough Style Friday, February 20, 2015, 1:30 pm Frans Hals usually painted lifesize portraits, but he also made a number of tiny likenesses. Among the loans from the RoseMarie and Eijk van Otterloo collection is a painting hardly bigger than a sheet of paper, in which Halss celebrated brushwork, loose and suggestive, is scaled down to breathtaking effect. It is a masterpiece of virtuosity and intensity. In this lecture, Walsh s br, br,