Frans Hals (1582/83 - 1666),

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

• Frans Hals married his first wife Anneke Harmensdochter around 1610.

• Anneke died in 1615, shortly after the birth of their third child.

• In 1617, he married Lysbeth Reyniers.

• Hals was a devoted father, and they went on to have eight children.

• Hals refused to paint in Amsterdam, insisting that the militiamen come to Haarlem to sit for their portraits.

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