- don. Replica of picture in National Gallery,
London; sent to England by C. S. Evard and sold to Angerstein, with Embarkation of Queen of Sheba, for 200,000 francs; purchased for National Gallery in 1824. Engraving in Gallery Angerstein, in Cabinet Gallery, in Mason's National Gallery, and by Goodall (1834).—Pattison, Claude Lorrain, 51, 227; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Waagen, Treasures, i. 341.
ISAAC, SACRIFICE OF, Tintoretto, Scuola
di S. Rocco, Venice; oval, on ceiling of
upper room. "One of the least worthy of
the master in the room, the three figures
being thrown into violent attitudes, as inexpressive
as they are strained and artificial."—Ruskin,
Stones of Venice, iii. 349; Ridolfi,
Marav., ii. 198.
ISAAC, SACRIFICE OF. See, also,
Abraham.
ISAACSZ (Izaaksz, Ysaacx), PIETER,
born at Helsingör, Denmark, in 1569, died
at Amsterdam probably in 1631. Dutch
school; history and portrait painter, pupil
at Amsterdam of Cornelis Ketel, afterwards
of Johann von Achen; after travelling in
Germany and Italy settled at Amsterdam,
and temporarily (1618-23) worked at Copenhagen
as court-painter to Christian IV.
Works: Portrait of Christian IV., Berlin
Museum; Allegory on Vanity (1600), Basle
Museum; Princely Banquet, Copenhagen
Gallery.—Archief v. nederl. K., ii. 135;
Kramm, iii. 786.
ISABEL OF BOURBON, QUEEN, first
wife of Philip IV., Velasquez, Mrs. Henry
Huth, Wykehurst, Surrey, England; canvas,
H. 6 ft. 7 in. × 3 ft. 8 in. Full-length, standing,
wearing a black head-dress with white
feather, white ruff, close-fitting under-sleeves,
and black hooped dress, with a border of
leaves of gold around the bottom and up
the front, and on the bodice and long open
sleeves; in left hand, a fan; right hand on
back of a chair; background, pink drapery.
Louis Philippe sale (1853), £300, to Mr.
Farrar, who sold it in 1863 to Mr. Huth.
Companion to Mrs. Huth's Philip IV. Repetitions,
with variations: Hampton Court;
Francis Clare Ford, London.—Curtis, 92;
Athenæum (1862), 623.
By Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 9 ft. 10 in. × 10 ft. 3 in. About twenty-five years old, on a white horse, which walks left; brown dress; landscape background. Probably painted in 1644; companion to Philip IV. of same size in Madrid Museum. Etched by F. Goya.—Palomino, iii. 332; Curtis, 91; Madrazo, 609.
ISABEL, SANTA, Murillo. See Elizabeth
of Hungary.
ISABELLA, Sir John Everett Millais,
Royal Institution, Liverpool; canvas, H. 3
ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. 7-1/2 in. Scene from Keats's
poem—"Isabella, or the Pot of Basil"—founded
on Boccaccio's story; descriptive
of the feelings of the two brothers on discovering
the mutual love of Isabella and
Lorenzo. This, the first Pre-Raphaelite
picture by Millais, represents two rows of
persons seated at table, nearly all seen in
profile, and most of them portraits of friends.
At right, Lorenzo (William Rossetti) holds a
plate, on which he offers half of a cut blood-*orange
to Isabella (Mrs. Henry Hodgkinson),
who is caressing a hound. At left, one of
the brothers (Mr. John Harris), enraged at
her reception of Lorenzo's courtesy, viciously
kicks the hound, while the other (Dante Gabriel
Rossetti), looking over his glass, watches
the lovers with cruel eyes. A guest (the
artist's father) wipes his lips with a napkin;
another (Mr. W. Hugh Fenn) pares an
apple; a serving-man (Mr. Wright), with a
white napkin over his arm, stands behind
Isabella and Lorenzo. Painted in 1848-9;
Royal Academy, 1849; bought by B. G.
Windus, of Tottenham; at his sale (1868),
£672 10s., to Thomas Woolner, R.A.; his
sale (1875), £892 10s., to Constantine A.
Ionides, London; sold at Christie's (1883)
for £1,102 10s. Engraved in Art Journal
(1882) by H. Bourne.—Fraser's Mag. (1849),
xl. 77; Art Journal (1882), 188.
ISABELLA, EMPRESS (wife of Charles
V.), portrait of, Titian, Madrid Museum;
