Frans Hals clearly had an eye for faces, but he doesn’t seem to have been very interested in turning it on himself. Unlike his great contemporary Rembrandt van Rijn, whose some eighty self-portraits comprise a richly inventive visual memoir extending from his young manhood to the year of his death, Hals is generally credited with […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/23/laughs-and-smiles-the-portraitist-frans-hals-nadler/