File:Frans Hals - Head of a boy.jpg

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Frans Hals: Head of a boy in a beret  wikidata:Q55561226 reasonator:Q55561226
Artist
Frans Hals  (1582/1583–1666)  wikidata:Q167654 s:en:Author:Frans Hals
 
Frans Hals
Alternative names
Frans Franchoisz Hals
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1582 or 1583
date QS:P,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1583-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
26 August 1666 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Antwerp Haarlem
Work period between circa 1603 and circa 1666
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1603-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1666-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Haarlem (1608–1616); Antwerp (1616–1616); Haarlem (1617–1666) Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q167654
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The head of a boy / Portrait of a boy
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1640
date QS:P571,+1640-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions diameter: 29.9 cm (11.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2386,29.9U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717

Object history William Clinton Baker (1865-1935), Bayfordsbury, Hertfordshire, by 1925, in the Breakfast Room; Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1928, lot 80 (£3,500 to Agnew's).
with Agnew's, London, by whom sold in March 1929 for £5,000, to Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt,, G.C.V.O. (1893-1973), Luton Hoo, in the Dutch Room; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 24-25 March 1995, lot 67, as 'Follower of Frans Hals', where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibition history London, Wildenstein, Loan Exhibition of the Collection of Sir Harold Wernher, G.C.V.O., 1946, no. 23.
Luton Hoo Museum, May-October 1950.
London, Guildhall, The Wernher Collection, 1953, no. 28.
Brighton, Hove Art Museum, Paintings from the Wernher Collection, 1953-54, no. 28.
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Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5221699 (sale 7743, lot 5, London, 7 July 2009)
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