Frans Hals (song)

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"Frans Hals"
Single by McCarthy
B-side
  • The Fall
  • The Fall (remix) (12" only)
  • Kill Kill Kill Kill (12" only)
  • Frans Hals (version) (12" only)
ReleasedMarch 1987
Genre Indie pop
Label Pink Label
Songwriter(s) Malcolm Eden
McCarthy singles chronology
"Red Sleeping Beauty"
(1986)
"Frans Hals"
(1987)
"The Well of Loneliness"
(1987)

"Frans Hals" is a single by McCarthy released in March 1987; their last on Pink Label. The b-sides were "The Fall (remix)" and "Kill Kill Kill Kill" and "Frans Hals (version)".

The single is not on any of the group's three studio albums. It can be found on the releases A La Guillotine and That's All Very Well But... .

Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals was the subject of the song and the lyrics were inspired by John Berger's comments on Hals in his 1972 book, Ways of Seeing .

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<i>Banquet of the Officers of the Calivermen Civic Guard, Haarlem</i> Painting by Frans Hals

Banquet of the officers of the Calivermen Civic Guard, Haarlem formerly known as The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1627, refers to a schutterstuk painted by Frans Hals, in 1627, for the St. Adrian civic guard of Haarlem. Today it is considered one of the main attractions of the Frans Hals Museum, in Haarlem.

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The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Frans Hals, painted from 1626 - 1627, during the Dutch Golden Age. Today, the piece is considered one of the main attractions of the Frans Hals Museum.  

<i>The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639</i> Painting by Frans Hals

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<i>Regentesses of the Old Mens Almshouse</i> Painting by Frans Hals

The Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse Haarlem is a regents group portrait of four regentesses and their servant painted by Frans Hals, c. 1664, for the Oude Mannenhuis in Haarlem, the Netherlands. It forms a pendant with the Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse.

<i>Regents of the Old Mens Almshouse</i> Painting by Frans Hals

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<i>The Gypsy Girl</i> (Hals) 1628 painting by Frans Hals

The Gypsy Girl, also known as Gypsy Girl, is an oil-on-wood painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628-1630, and now in the Louvre Museum, in Paris. It is a tronie, a study of facial expression and unusual costume, rather than a commissioned portrait. The display of cleavage was not a common feature of costume seen in public in Hals' time and place.

<i>St Luke</i> (Hals) Painting by Frans Hals

St. Luke is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1625 and now in the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art.

<i>St Matthew</i> (Hals) Painting by Frans Hals

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<i>St Mark</i> (Hals) Painting by Frans Hals

St. Mark is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1625. It was purchased by Russian philanthropist Alisher Usmanov from the art dealer Colnaghi, London in September 2013 for the Pushkin Museum and donated by him to that museum in November that year, where it still hangs.

<i>Cornelia Claesdr Voogt</i> Painting by Frans Hals

Portrait of Cornelia Claesdr. Vooght is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1631 and now in the Frans Hals Museum. The painting is an oil on panel and is considered a pendant portrait to that of her husband, the Haarlem brewer and mayor Nicolaes Woutersz van der Meer.

<i>Portrait of a Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat</i> Painting by Frans Hals

The Portrait of a Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat is a work by the Dutch Golden-Age artist Frans Hals. It was painted in about 1625–1635 and hangs in the Herzogliches Museum, part of the Friedenstein Palace complex at Gotha, Germany. It was stolen in 1979, recovered in 2019, and restored in 2020–2021.