Frans Hals

Portrait of Willem Coymans



Frans Hals - Portrait of Willem Coymans



Frans Hals
Portrait of Willem Coymans
1645
77 x 64 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970-72, nr. 166
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals, Stuttgart, 1989, nr. 127 info

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 76-79
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 343

Literature
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 142
Christopher D.M. Atkins, The Signature Style of Frans Hals, [Amsterdam], 2012, fig. 71
Steven Nadler, The portraitist, Chicago; London, 2022, fig. 52



Provenance

Coymans family, Haarlem
Mrs. Frederick Wollaston, London
with Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, before 1894
Rodolphe Kann (died 1905), Paris, by 1897
purchased 1907 with the entire Kann collection by Duveen
with Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris, sold to Huntington
Arabella D. (Mrs. Collis P.) Huntington (born c. 1850-died 1924), New York
by inheritance to her son, Archer M. Huntington (born 1870-died 1955), New York
purchased 17 May 1928 by Duveen
with Duveen Brothers, Inc., sold 7 May 1929 to Mellon
Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA


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Frans Hals Singing Boy with a Flute
Singing Boy with a Flute
c. 1623-25

Frans Hals Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of a Woman
c. 1635

Frans Hals Portrait of a Member of the Haarlem Civic Guard, possibly Jan Jansz. Soop
Portrait of a Member of the Haarlem Civic Guard, possibly Jan Jansz. Soop
c. 1636/38

Frans Hals The laughing cavalier
The laughing cavalier
1624

Frans Hals Gypsy Girl
Gypsy Girl
c. 1626