Jozef Israëls

(1824–1911) Dutch painter (1824-1911)

Jozef Israëls (Netherlands, 1824–1911) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Jozef Israëls belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Jozef Israëls was born in Groningen and died in Scheveningen. Jozef Israëls trained at Academie Minerva. The teachers included Jan Adam Kruseman and François-Édouard Picot. Wikidata associates Jozef Israëls with Hague School. Jozef Israëls became a member of Arti et Amicitiae, Hague School, and Royal Academy of Arts. The students included Isaac Israëls.

The best-known works include ‘'Alone in the World'’, ‘Children of the Sea’, ‘Passing Mother's Grave’, and ‘Peasant's meal in Delden’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait and landscape painting. The catalogue has 113 works by Jozef Israëls with free images. The dated works span the years 1500–1908. Works by Jozef Israëls are held by several collections, among them Rijksmuseum, Kunsthandel Frans Buffa & Zonen, Groninger Museum, and Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jan Weissenbruch, Willem Roelofs, Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff, Auguste Bonheur, and Henri-Pierre Picou.

• Realism
• Passing Mother's Grave