Centuries later Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: 'What a joy it is to see a Frans Hals, how different it is from the paintings – so many of them – where everything is carefully smoothed out in the same manner.'
几个世纪之后，文森特·梵高在给弟弟西奥的信中写道：“欣赏一幅弗兰斯·哈尔斯的作品是件多么美好的事，它与其他人的画作是如此的不同——有那么多的画作——在那些画上所有事物都以同样的方式被谨慎地抹平了。