Laughing Fisherboy for the 1962 show, this painting's entry at #21 states that N.S. Trivas went too far when he dismissed all of these paintings as being unattributable to the master, and that the shaggy cap is one which was often worn by farmers and Dutch sailors in the 17th century. Other fisher folk by Hals: Laughing Fisherboy Laughing Fisherboy is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628 and now in Westphalia. This painting was documented by Ernst Wilhelm Moes in 1909 and Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote "A LAUGHING FISHER BOY. M. 253
The Laughing Cavalier (novel) devil-may-care arrogance, do we not condone it, seeing that it has its mainspring behind a fine straight brow whose noble, sweeping lines betray an undercurrent of dignity and of thought." "And yet no biographer has-- so far as is known to the author of this veracious chronicle-- ever attempted to tell us anything of this man's life, no one has attempted hitherto to lift the veil of anonymity which only thinly hides the identity of the Laughing Cavalier." "But here in Haarlem-- in the sleepy, yet thriving little town where he lived, the hard-frozen ground in winter seems at times