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Jan Steen, too, had trouble making ends meet. But Steen was content to eke out his living as a brewer and innkeeper. Frans Hals, as great a virtuoso of the brush as ever lived, put clear understanding into his Jolly Toper (opposite). The Toper (which remarkably resembles Actor Van Heflin...
With regard to your cut of Bishop Berggrav in your issue of Sept. 13, may I point out that Holbein's portraits are not ruffed. Ruffs came in later, and are characteristic of the portraits by Frans Hals [see cut].
THE LONG SHIPS, by Frans G. Bengtsson (503 pp.; Knopf; $4.50) offers lusty Vikings lusting and looting, bedding and battling across Europe from the Ebro to the Dneiper. The slaughter seems remote and good-humored as Christianity comes to the heathens of the north.
Shocked Justice. Last week the Gouws brothers faced Judge Frans Rumpff in a crowded courtroom in Pretoria. Both men were charged with murder. The evidence against the Gouws was overwhelming: Joseph had died of "bruises and wounds . . . too numerous to count." But when the defendants pleaded "culpable homicide" (which made...
* Rembrandt left his group portrait of Captain Frans Banning Cocq's "shooting company" untitled. Later generations have referred to it by various titles; the Night Watch became common usage in the 19th Century.