While recent restoration work was being carried out on Frans Hals’ Three Children with a Goat Cart, in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, art historians confirmed a theory that the work was part of the Dutch Golden Age painter’s larger Portrait of the Van Campen family, which was split into several parts at the start of the 19th century. This exhibition reunites the work at the museum with two other fragments for the first time in more than two centuries, showing them alongside additional family portraits by Hals to explore how he transformed the genre. Find out more from the RMFAB’s website.
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Children of the Van Campen Family with a Goat-Cart (c. 1623–25), Frans Hals. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Portrait of a Boy of the Van Campen Family (c. 1623–25), Frans Hals. Private European collection
The Van Campen Family in a Landscape (c. 1623–25), Frans Hals. Toledo Museum of Art
Proposed reconstruction of Frans Hals’ complete The Van Campen Family in a Landscape. Courtesy Toledo Museum of Art
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