Frans Hals: The Male Portrait - Dr Lelia Packer

A Friends of Kenwood Sunday lecture given by Dr Lelia Packer of the Wallace Collection, London.
Frans Hals’s portrait of Pieter van den Broecke is one of Kenwood House London’s most important paintings. It has been lent to the Wallace Collection for the major exhibition on Frans Hals which runs until 30 January 2022.
Arguably one of the greatest of portrait painters, Hals (c1582 - 1666) is also one of the most eminent of Dutch 17th century artists. Through pose and virtuosic painterly technique, Hals revolutionised the male portrait, revealing his sitters’ characters like no one else before him. The lecture looks closely at Hals’s famous ‘Laughing Cavalier’ from 1624.
Dr Lelia Packer is curator of the exhibition ‘Frans Hals: The Male Portrait’ and Curator of Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German and pre-1600 Paintings at the Wallace Collection.
Introduction music: Allemande 'Also gehts, also stehts' by Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654), a German-born composer who went to Amsterdam to study with the distinguished Dutch composer, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621).
Produced by Friends of Kenwood
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