Laughing Cavalier Laughing Cavalier The Laughing Cavalier (1624) is a portrait by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals in the Wallace Collection in London, which has been described as "one of the most brilliant of all Baroque portraits". The title is an invention of the Victorian public and press, dating from its exhibition in the opening display at the Bethnal Green Museum in 1872–75, just after its arrival in England, after which it was regularly reproduced as a print, and became among of the best known old master paintings in Britain. The unknown subject is in fact not laughing, but can
Cavalier (Dungeons & Dragons) Cavalier (Dungeons & Dragons) The cavalier is a playable character class in the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, and the related "Pathfinder Roleplaying Game". It is a mounted warrior mostly in the service of good. The cavalier was introduced by Gary Gygax in "Dragon" #72 (April 1983). The cavalier later appears in the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" supplement, "Unearthed Arcana" in 1985, which also made the paladin a sub-class of the cavalier class. The Samurai from Oriental Adventures and Knights of Solamnia from Dragonlance Adventures were also subclasses of cavalier. The cavalier (along with the barbarian) was revised in