[1] Houbraken claimed the son who was still alive (at the time he was writing, c. 1704–1710) had emigrated to the East Indies where he lived with a mestizo whom he married for her money, in a house filled with paintings "in the Dutch manner".
[1] Houbraken heard this story from J. Wieland, an elderly art collector who had known the family.
[1] According to the RKD he was the son of Frans Hals and his second wife, Lysbeth Reyniersdr.
He was the half-brother of Harmen and Frans II, and the full brother of Reynier and Nicolaes.
[2] He had the bentname "De Gulden Esel" (the golden easel),[2] but he is not recorded in Italy, so it is difficult to understand how he came to join the Bentvueghels.