Haarlem museum pairs works by Frans Hals and Rembrandt

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Haarlem, just a 15-minute train journey from Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, is home to an exhibition featuring works by the 17th-century artists Frans Hals and Rembrandt. The display can be seen at the Frans Hals Museum through February 28, 2027. It is not known whether the two painters ever met. The museum, once a retirement and care home where Hals spent his final years in poverty, showcases commissioned portraits, informal portraits of ordinary people, including fisherfolk, and group portraits by both artists. In the final gallery, visitors will find Rembrandt’s “De Staalmeesters,” from the Rijksmuseum, alongside Hals’ depiction of the former home’s trustees. The city’s historic streets include courtyards, and the article suggests visiting the Vijfhoek district and the Grote Markt. Hals was buried in the Grote Kerk, whose interior features a large baroque organ, said to have been played by Handel and Mozart. Nearby, the Corrie Ten Boomhuis tells how a family of Dutch Christians hid Jews and resistance fighters during the Nazi occupation. Teylers Museum, by the river, displays fossils, crystals, scientific instruments and late 19th-century Dutch paintings; it claims to be the country’s oldest museum. Beyond the city centre, Zuid Kennemerland National Park is a protected area of dunes, forests and lakes that gives way to North Sea beaches. https://muvezzi.com/en/a-web-of-canals-and-cobbled-streets-a-city-break-in-haarlem-in-the-netherlands-33638

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