According to Houbraken he was the son of the painter Frans Hals and was like his brothers Harman and Jan, good at music and painting.
[1] He was a member of the Haarlem Guild of St.
[1] According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History he painted portraits and genre works, and spent most of his life in Haarlem.
He influenced the painter Alexander Sanders.
[2] A portrait formerly attributed to him is in the collection of the Bredius Museum.