Portrait of Eduard Wallis. Johannes Verspronck and Frans Hals were active as portraitists in Haarlem around the same time. Yet it isdifficult to imagine greater differences between their styles! Verspronck painted smoothly and precisely andlavished attention on detail. Hals’s handling is much sketchier, and his rendering of details much moresummary. The wealthy cloth merchant Eduard Wallis and his wife evidently preferred Verspronck.

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