194) and a fascinating unsigned portrait of William III.

as a pale and wistful boy.
Haarlem was the mother or instructor of many painters.

There is Dirck Hals, the brother of Frans, who was born there at the end of the sixteenth century, and painted richly coloured scenes of fashionable convivial life.

He died at Haarlem ten years before Frans.

A greater was Bartholomew van der Helst, who was Hals' most assimilative pupil.