subsequent works are The Zandvoort Fisherman (in the Amsterdam Gallery), The Silent House (which gained a gold medal at the Brussels Salon, 1858) and Village Poor (a prize at Manchester). In 1862, he achieved great success in London with his The Shipwrecked Mariner, purchased by Mr Young, and The Cradle, two pictures that the Athenaeum magazine described as the most touching pictures of the exhibition. A portrait of Jozef Israëls was painted by the Scottish painter George Paul Chalmers . Honours 1886: Officer in the Order of Leopold. Later work His later works include The Widower (in the Mesdag collection), When we grow Old, Peasant Family at the Table and Alone in the World (Van Gogh Museum / Amsterdam Gallery), An Interior (Dordrecht Gallery), A Frugal Meal (Glasgow museum), Toilers of the Sea, Speechless Dialogue, Between the Fields and the Seashore, The Bric-a-brac Seller (which gained medals of honor at the great Paris Exhibition of 1900). David Singing before Saul, one of his later works, seems to hint at a return on the part of the venerable artist to the Rembrandtesque note of his youth. As a watercolour painter and etcher he produced a vast number of works, which, like his oil paintings, are full of deep feeling. They are generally treated in broad masses of light and shade, which give prominence to the principal subject without any neglect of detail. Israëls probably influenced many other painters and one them was the Scottish painter Robert McGregor (1847-1922). References Attribution Bibliography Jan Veth, Mannen of Betekenis: Jozef Israëls Chesneau, Peintres français et étrangers Philippe Zilcken, Peintres hollandais modernes (1893) Dumas, Illustrated Biographies of Modern Artists (1882–1884) J. de Meester, in Max Roose's Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1898) Jozef Israëls, Spain: the Story of a Journey (1900). External links Hecht Museum Virtual Scotland BBC Genealogy Israels Biographical notes and dates of Jozef Isräels, in the Dutch R.K.D. Archive Free images of the art of Jozef Isräels, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Video of the artist's paintings 1824 births 1911 deaths Dutch Jews 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Jewish painters Painters from Groningen Painters from Amsterdam Hague School 20th-century Dutch painters Honorary Members of the Royal Academy 19th-century Dutch male artists 20th-century Dutch male artists