ISAAC ISRAËLS – Famous Impressionist Dutch Painter (HD)

Isaac Lazarus Israëls, was born in 1865. He was a Dutch painter associated with and a leading figure of the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. He was the son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida Schaap. Isaac Israëls displayed extraordinary talent at a very early age. Between 1880 and 1882 he studied at the Royal Academy of Art, in The Hague, where he met George Hendrik Breitner, who was to become a lifelong friend. 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. Two portraits he made in the same year of his grandmother and a family friend, Nannette Enthoven, attest to the technical ability he had attained by that age. 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. In the 1885 Salon, he received an honorable mention for