Isaac [his son, also a painter] and Liebermann had a lot of hassle with horses at the beach during the summer [in Katwijk ] and I also got a wipe of it.. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)" - Meaning and context.">
version in original Dutch (citaat van Jozef Israëls in Nederlands): Isaac [zijn zoon] en Liebermann hadden van de zomer veel gedoe met paarden aan het strand [van Katwijk] en ik heb er ook een veeg van mee gekregen..
 • Quote from Jozef Israëls' letter to Jan Veth, 12 Nov. 1900; from RPK - collection, letters of Jozef Israëls, nr. 29
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Isaac [his son, also a painter] and Liebermann had a lot of hassle with horses at the beach during the summer [in Katwijk ] and I also got a wipe of it.. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

— Jozef Israëls

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Isaac [his son, also a painter] and Liebermann had a lot of hassle with horses at the beach during the summer [in Katwijk ] and I also got a wipe of it.. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)" in the context of "version in original Dutch (citaat van Jozef Israëls in Nederlands): Isaac [zijn zoon] en Liebermann hadden van de zomer veel gedoe met paarden aan het strand [van Katwijk] en ik heb er ook een veeg van mee gekregen..
 • Quote from Jozef Israëls' letter to Jan Veth, 12 Nov. 1900; from RPK - collection, letters of Jozef Israëls, nr. 29" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jozef Israëls

About Jozef Israëls

Jozef Israëls (27 January 1824 – 12 August 1911) was a Dutch painter. He was a leading senior artist of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School. In Israëls' painting art the ordinary people are his dominating subject.