Israëls, Jozef (1824–1911), Dutch painter. Israëls was a leader of the Hague School of landscape painters, which shared some of the ideals of the Barbizon School in France. His low-keyed and sentimental scenes of peasant life recall the work of French painter Jean François Millet.

Born in Groningen of Jewish parents, Israëls trained in Amsterdam and then in Paris, under French painters Paul Delaroche and Carle Vernet. After settling in The Hague in 1870, he gave up history painting for scenes of peasants and fishermen, usually painted in low-key colors, often almost monochromatically. His son, Isaac Israëls, was also a painter, but his work is very different from his father's. Isaac Israëls associated with George Breitner, the leading Dutch impressionist, and painted brightly colored scenes of social life.