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 | | His first master at Antwerp was probably van Noort, as has been suggested by M. Davies, but on his removal tollaarlem Frans Hals entered the atelier of van Mander, the painter and historian, of whom he possessed some pictures which went to pay the debt of the baker already alluded to. |
 | | He gradually dropped more and more into grey and silvery harmonies of tone; and two of his canvases, executed in 1664, The Regents and Regentesses of the Oudemannenhuis at Haarlem, are masterpieces of color, though in substance all but monochromes. |
 | | Quite in another form, and with much of the freedom of the elder Hals, DIRK HALS, his brother (born at Haarlem, died 1656), is a painter of festivals and bali-rooms. |
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