Marie-Louise Hairs

Marie-Louise Hairs (1912 – 1998) was a Belgian art historian specializing in Flemish still-life flower paintings of the 17th century.

Her overview of the Flemish flower painters of the 17th century was reprinted and excerpted several times during her lifetime. She is credited with the first academic study of Flemish flower garland painters. She wrote a chapter on flower painting in the 1989 overview of Flemish golden age painting by Edith Greindl.

Works André Daniels : peintre de fleurs Anversois : vers 1600, 1951 Osias Beert l'Ancien : peintre de fleurs, 1951 Les peintres Flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, 1955 Gaspard Thielens, peintre flamand du dix-septième siècle, 1959 Pour un tricentenaire : Daniel Seghers (1590-1661), 1960 Les peintres Flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, 1965 Théodore van Thulden 1606-1669 : oeuvres signées ou attestées sur document, 1965 Jan Anton van der Baren : monographie, 1970 XVIIe siècle : l'âge d'or de la peinture flamande, 1989