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from Auction House Records.
PORTRAIT OF WILLEM VAN HEYTHUYSEN, SEATED ON A CHAIR AND HOLDING A HUNTING CROP
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Frans Hals was born in Antwerp, Belgium between 1581 and 1585, the son
of a weaver from Mechelen. He was a pupil of Karel von Mander
from c. 1600-1603. About 1610, Hals married Anacke Hermanszoon, and the
following year a son, Herman, was born. Five years later, Hals
was summoned before the magistrates for ill-treating his wife and for
drunken habits and violent conduct. His wife died a few weeks
later.
The following year he married Lysbeth Reyniers, a woman
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