about Hals's characteristic loose finish, which he thought betrayed impatience. Subsequently, in 1781 Reynolds visited the Hals collection then at Haarlem Town Hall (now at the Frans Hals Museum) and soon after bought two Hals works. Reynolds's biographer James Northcote (1736–1831), who was a fellow portraitist, remarked that Hals could have caught a bird in flight, grasping it, as it were, from life – something he said Titian would not have been capable of. Starting at the middle of the 1860s his prestige rose again thanks to the efforts of critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger. With his rehabilitation in public esteem came the enormous rise in value, and, at the Secretan sale in 1889, the portrait of Pieter van den Broecke was bid up to 4,420 francs, while in 1908 the National Gallery paid £25,000 for the large family group from the collection of Lord Talbot de Malahide. Hals's work remains admired, particularly with young painters who can find many lessons about practical technique from his unconcealed brushstrokes. Hals's works have found their way to countless cities all over the world and into museum collections. From the late 19th century, they were collected everywhere—from Antwerp to Toronto, and from London to New York. Many of his paintings were then sold to American collectors. Several of his most important works are owned by the town council of Haarlem. They are now at the Frans Hals Museum in the Groot Heiligland, Haarlem. Before 1913 they hung in the Town Hall, where impressionists went to see them. The Hals crater on Mercury is named in his honor. Hals was pictured on the Netherlands' 10-guilder banknote of 1968. The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616 appears on the restaurant wall in the 1989 Peter Greenaway film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Public collections (selection) Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem Frick Collection, New York City Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen Louvre, Paris Mauritshuis, The Hague Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Kenwood House Wallace Collection, London See also List of paintings by Frans Hals Han van Meegeren References Further reading Frans Hals biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Seymour Slive: Frans Hals, 3 Volumes (oeuvre catalogue), New York /