This biography worksheet introduces students to Frans Hals, the Dutch Golden Age painter celebrated for his lively, spontaneous portraiture and masterful brushwork. Keywords:Frans Hals, Dutch Golden Age, portraiture, The Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Militia Company, Laughing Cavalier, Haarlem, 17th century art, Baroque, spontaneous brushwork, group portrait, individual portrait, Dutch master, lively painting style, art biography, civic guard portraits, realism, social portraiture,