A friends reunion for the Laughing Cavalier

Later this year, one of the Wallace Collection’s most famous paintings, The Laughing Cavalier will be joined with a selection of other paintings by the same artist that have never been seen together before.
The Laughing Cavalier was painted by the Dutch Master portrait painter, Frans Hals in around 1624, and is the only painting by the artist in the Wallace Collection.
A new exhibition opening in September will bring together over a dozen of the artist’s best male portraits from coll