• The Merry Drinker is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch artist Frans Hals, from c. 1628–1630. The painting has dimensions of 81 by 66.5 centimeters.
  • Frans Hals is known for his swiftly applied short brushstrokes. Just look at the collar: a jumble of white streaks of paint and yet unmistakably a lace collar.
  • Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem.
  • The Merry Drinker is painted in a bright, blond tonality which anticipates nineteenth-century Impressionism in its most brilliant manifestations.
  • Frans Hals painted this masterpiece of Dutch portraiture between 1627 and 1628, in the midst of the Golden Age.
  • A Militiaman Holding a Berkemeyer, Known as theMerry Drinker’, ca.
  • This militiaman merrily raises his glass to toast us – who would not wish to join him? ... This bravura painting style ensured the continued success of Frans Hals.
  • The Merry Drinker, 1628-1630 by Frans Hals is entirely handmade without use of artificial methods.
  • Frans Hals, Merry Drinker, c. 1628-1630, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This militia man in the Merry Drinker raises his glass (a Berkemeyer, a...