Portrait of a Wounded KNIL Soldier (Dutch: Portret van een gewonde KNIL-militair.

The sitter was identified in 2000 by Eveline Sint Nicolaas as Kees Pop, an African soldier of the Dutch East Indies Army (Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger; "KNIL").

His comrade Jan Kooi was portrayed in the same year by J.C. Leich in a much more heroic, realistic military fashion, whereas Israels was much more interested in the drama of the sitter's personal story.

Though the first World War caused him to delay, Israëls did manage to visit the Dutch East Indies himself, where he made many paintings during the course of a two-year stay in 1921, armed with introductory letters from Akkeringa.

This portrait, along with the portrait of Jan Kooi, was featured in the 2008 art exhibition in the Amsterdam Nieuwe Kerk called "Black is Beautiful", and sparked a national conversation about the Indo-African community that nearly a century later arrived in the Netherlands from Indonesia after WWII, some of whose members were possible descendants of these men.