Art Lecture with Thomas Germano - Frans Hals: 2023-24 Exhibitions

Frans Hals’s portraits are imbued with emotion and animated with life. There’s the hint of a smile, a hand resting nonchalantly on a hip, a silent glance across the composition at another character, or a figure looking out to meet the viewer’s stare. Hals was one of the most sought-after painters of his generation. A gifted artist whose deft brushwork was unparalleled, earning his reputation with a new style of ‘loose brushwork’ portraiture.

The National Gallery and The Rijks Museum will host this first major retrospective exhibition of Hals in more than thirty years; London Fall, 2023, and Amsterdam in Spring 2024. Some 50 of Hals’s finest works, including large group portraits, genre scenes, wedding and individual portraits notably ‘The Laughing Cavalier’ (1624) will be shown outside the Wallace Collection for the first time.  Professor Thomas Germano will present a visual presentation related to the life, the work and the 2023-24 Hals exhibitions.

Please note this program will be in-person only.