Victor Eeckhout

Victor Eeckhout
Born 1821
Antwerp
Died 1879
Tangiers, Morocco
Nationality Belgian
Education Jacob Joseph Eeckhout (father)
Known for Painter
Movement Orientalist

Victor Eeckhout (1821–1879) was a Belgian painter, noted for his genre works and paintings with Orientalist subject matter.

Life and career

The son of painter, Jacob Joseph Eeckhout, Victor was born at Antwerp in 1821. He received his early art education from his father.

He travelled to the East, a major source of inspiration for many of his artworks. He was enamoured of Morocco and found it much more interesting and with more characters than Algiers. In Morocco, he met up with the artist, Jean Portaels and the pair spent time drinking mint tea and discussing art. [1]

He died in 1879 in Tangiers.

Work

Select List of Paintings

  • The Entrance to the Souk, Tangiers, 1869[2]
  • Ruins at Tangiers, [3]

Gallery


See also



References

  1. ↑ Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium), Haags Gemeentemuseum, Théo van Rysselberghe, Mercatorfonds, 2006, pp 20-21
  2. ↑ Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, Agnew (Thos.) & Sons, London, 1973
  3. ↑ Colnaghi (Gallery), Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co, 1995, p. 39
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eeckhout, Victor". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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