. Art and artists of our time . under the conventional teachingof men like Pieneman and Kruseman, Henri Scheffer and Picot, was not very successful, and,fortunately for himself and us, Israels was not long in finding themes more suited to histalent. He began to paint at Katwyk-aan-zee, a smaU watering-place about two hours byboat from Leyden, a favorite resort of the inhabitants of that city in the this place he sent to the Paris Salon of 1857 his Children of the Sea and Eveningon the Shore, which at once attracted attention to his name. In 1861 he sent five pictures tothe Sal
. Art and artists of our time . under the conventional teachingof men like Pieneman and Kruseman, Henri Scheffer and Picot, was not very successful, and,fortunately for himself and us, Israels was not long in finding themes more suited to histalent. He began to paint at Katwyk-aan-zee, a smaU watering-place about two hours byboat from Leyden, a favorite resort of the inhabitants of that city in the this place he sent to the Paris Salon of 1857 his Children of the Sea and Eveningon the Shore, which at once attracted attention to his name. In 1861 he sent five pictures tothe Salon, and in 1863 three more, while in 1862 he had appeared at the International Exhi-bition at Brompton (London) with four pictures, among them The Shipwrecked, a workthat called forth the highest commendation. His Shipwrecked, said Francis Turner Pal-grave, is a very impressive work, imagined with great solemnity and a total absence of sen-timentalism or over-point. The poetry of the scene lies in the long, dark line of figures. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 317 against the sky; in the homely tenderness with which the sailors are bearing their comrade;and the unaffected truth of the lesser details. It is genuine art which could venture thus onthe gradual indifference to the catastrophe displayed by the followers of the sad procession,and represents the desolate wreck, not surrounded by stormy waves, but gently rocked onthe unpitying and unconscious sea, in the last undulations of the tempest. And Tom Tay-lor, in his hand-book to the Exhibition, thus speaks of the same picture, and of the artistswork in general; The most impressive picture in the Dutch collection, and one of the mostimpressive in the whole Exhibition, is J. Israels Shijpwrecked. Through the twilight of astormy day, which tells its tale in the ragged gray and watery blue of the heavy sky and thedirty surf that still breaks heavily along the shore, a sorrowful procession winds up from thebeach over the low sand hil
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