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ISRAELI, ISAAC BEN SOLOMON (9thloth centuries) , Jewish physician and philosopher. A contemporary of Seadiah (q.v.), he was born and passed his life in North Africa. He died c. 950. At Kairawan, Israeli was court physician; he wrote several medical works in Arabic, and these were afterwards translated into Latin. Similarly his philosophical writings were translated, but his chief
ISRA'ILS, JOSEF (1824 ), Dutch painter, was born at Groningen, of Hebrew parents, on the 27th of January 1824. His father intended him to be a man of business, and it was only after a determined struggle that he was allowed to enter on an artistic career. However, the attempts he made under the guidance of two second-rate painters in his native townBuys and van Wicherenwhile still working under his father as a stock-broker's clerk, led to his being sent to Amsterdam, where he became a pupil of Jan Kruseman and attended the drawing class at the academy. He then spent two years in Paris, working in Picot's studio, and returned to Amsterdam. There he remained till 1870, when he moved to The Hague for good. Israels is justly regarded as one of the greatest of Dutch painters. He has often been compared to J. F. Millet. As artists, even more than as painters in the strict sense of the word, they both, in fact, saw in the life of the poor and humble a motive
He began with historical and dramatic subjects in the romantic style of the day. By chance, after an illness, he went to recruit his strength at the fishing-town of Zandvoort near Haarlem, and there he was struck by the daily tragedy of life. Thenceforth he was possessed by a new vein of artistic expression, sincerely realistic, full of emotion and pity. Among his more important subsequent works are " The Zandvoort Fisherman " (in the Amsterdam gallery), " The Silent House
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See Jan Veth, Mannen of Beteckenis: Jozef Israels; Chesneau, Peintres frangais et strangers; Ph. Zilcken, Peintres hollandais modernes (1893); Dumas, Illustrated Biographies of Modern Artists (18821884) ; J. de Meester, in Max Rooses' Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1898); Jozef Israels, Spain: the Story of a Journey (1900). End of Article: ISRAELI, ISAAC BEN SOLOMON (9thloth centuries) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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