Dutch portraitist Frans

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HALS

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Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• Dutch painter Frans - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
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• Dutch artist Frans - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• "Laughing Cavalier" painter - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Haarlem painter. - used 9 times, most recently in 1966
• Dutch master - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Painter Frans - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• "The Merry Drinker" painter - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Dutch Golden Age painter - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Holbrook and Linden - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Linden and Holbrook - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Rembrandt contemporary - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• "The Laughing Cavalier" artist - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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