Jacques Joseph Eeckhout

Hely: Antwerp

Született: 1793

Halál: 1861

Életrajz:

Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout or Jacques Joseph Eeckhout (6 or 8 February 1793 – 25 December 1861) was a Flemish painter, sculptor, pastellist, water-colourist and lithographer and a Director of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He received his initial art education at the Academy of Antwerp. At the Brussels Salon of 1821 he won first prize for sculpture. In 1829 he was elected a member of the Academies of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, and Rotterdam. In 1830 he was elected a fourth class member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, of which he became a supernumerary associate in 1841. He settled in The Hague in 1831. In 1839 he was appointed director of the Royal Academy of Art of The Hague. He moved to Mechelen where he was recorded in 1844 and later to Brussels. He went to live in Paris in 1859. Here he became a banker which gave him less time to spend on his art. In Paris he was living on the boulevard des Italiens. Eeckhout died in Paris on 25 December 1861. Eeckhout had many students, including his son Victor Eeckhout who was an Orientalist painter.