with Johan Joeke Gabriel van Wicheren and Cornelis Bernudes Buys at Academie Minerva (1835-42, Groningen); with Jan Adam Kruseman (Amsterdam); Amsterdam Academy (Koninklijke Academie, 1842-25 and 1847-50); with François-Edouard Picot(Paris); with sculptor James Pradier and painters Horace Vernet and Paul Delaroche at Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Paris)
1855 – exhibits William of Orange in Council with the Regent Margaret of Parma (1855, Historical Museum, Amsterdam) at Exposition universelle (Paris)
1861 – exhibits Fishermen Carrying a Drowned Man at Paris Salon and London International Exhibition (1862); begins exhibiting watercolors at Société Belge des Aquarellistes (Belgian Society of Watercolorists)
1871 – moves from Amsterdam to The Hague
1870s- watercolors exhibited in England and Scotland; makes etchings for Dutch and foreign etching societies and publishers; president of The Hague Painters’ Society
1890s- honorary member of the Munich Secession; member of the Berlin Secession
Paris (1845-47); Düsseldorf (1850); Paris and Barbizon (1853); Spain; Germany; England
Cobbler’s Family at Supper or Frugal Meal, 1876 (Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow)
A Visit to Mother's Grave, 1856 (Groningen Museum)
Alone in the World, n.d. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)
Jewish Wedding, 1903 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Leeuw, Ronald de. The Hague School: Dutch Masters of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983
Liebermann, Max. Jozef Israëls. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1922 (in German; by a contemporary artist)