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HALS, Frans: Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse

🖼 Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse, 1664
Oil on canvas
172.5 × 256 cm
Haarlem, Netherlands

Dark tones and penetrating gazes dominate this group portrait of five austere administrators seated in formal arrangement. Hals captures bureaucratic power through psychological intensity, abandoning flattery to reveal character—a revolutionary approach to institutional portraiture in seventeenth-century Dutch society.

Frans Hals
Frans Hals
Jaap van der Veen
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