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
Laughing Squid Laughing Squid Laughing Squid is a blog featuring items of art, culture, and technology, as well as a web hosting company based out of New York City, New York. The company itself was founded on November 16, 1995 in San Francisco, California as a film and video production company by Scott Beale, producing documentaries, including "Alonso G. Smith, A Half Century of Social Surrealism" about San Francisco Bay Area surrealist painter Alonso Smith and "You’d Better Watch Out: Portland Santacon ’96" about the SantaCon event in Portland, OR organized by the San Francisco Cacophony Society in 1996. In 1996 Laughing