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.Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium), Haags Gemeentemuseum, Théo van Rysselberghe, Mercatorfonds, 2006, pp 20-21
He died in 1879 in Tangiers.
Work Select List of Paintings The Entrance to the Souk, Tangiers, 1869Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, Agnew (Thos.) & Sons, London, 1973 Ruins at Tangiers, Colnaghi (Gallery), Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co, 1995, p. 39
Gallery
See also
List of Orientalist artists Orientalism
References
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