Towards the end of the century, Israëls was introduced by his childhood friend and portrait painter Thérèse Schwartze to the Amsterdam fashion house Hirsch & Cie at the Leidseplein. Interested by the changing light of sun and sea, he painted many colourful seaside scenes. Guests included Édouard Manet and Max Liebermann. He often spent his summers with his father in the Dutch seaside resort of Scheveningen near The Hague. At this time he met the Dutch engraver and painter Willem de Zwart who also became a lifelong friend. Influenced by this philosophy, Israëls became a painter of the streets, cafes, and cabarets of Amsterdam. This was a group that insisted style must reflect content and that emotionally charged subjects can only be represented by an equally intense technique. Both of them, however, quickly abandoned the academy for the more progressive circle of the Tachtigers, an influential group of writers and artists of the time. At this time he was reading Émile Zola, as was Breitner, and following his triumph at the Salon he spent a year travelling in the Belgian mining districts and elsewhere.īeginning 1886, Israëls lived in Amsterdam and registered with Breitner at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts to complete his schooling. In the 1885 Salon he received an honourable mention for his Transport of Colonial Soldiers. Starting in 1878, Israëls made annual visits to the Salon des Artistes Français with his father and in 1882 made his debut there with Military Burial. Two portraits he made in the same year of his grandmother and a family friend, Nannette Enthoven (below), attest to the technical ability he had attained by that age. In 1881, when he was 16, he sold a painting, Bugle Practice, even before it was finished to the artist and collector Hendrik Willem Mesdag. The son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida Schaap, Isaac Israëls displayed precocious artistic talent from an early age.īetween 18 he studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he met George Hendrik Breitner who was to become a lifelong friend.
Isaac Lazarus Israëls ( Dutch pronunciation: 3 February 1865 – 7 October 1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.
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