Join curator Dr Lelia Packer in an introduction to the exhibition ‘Frans Hals: the Male Portrait’ (22 September 2021 - 30 January 2022). The exhibition celebrates Frans Hals’s most famous and beloved painting, The Laughing Cavalier, in the first ever show to focus solely on Hals’s portraits of men posing on their own.
This exhibition brings together a selection of the artist’s best male portraits from Europe and North America. Discover how, through pose and virtuosic painterly technique, Hals revolutionised male portraiture into something new and fresh, capturing and revealing his sitters’ characters like no one else before him.
For more information from Lelia on Hals's Laughing Cavalier, October's Expert's Choice video is available to view here: • The Laughing Cavalier