Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout

Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts. The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp, The Hague and Mechelen. Works named in the authority record are Household troubles, The Marriage of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (Jacoba of Bavaria), and John IV, Duke of Brabant, on 10 March 1418, Portrait of Jonkheer Theodorus Frederik van Capellen, Vice-Admiral and Commander of the Dutch Squadron at Algiers in 1816 and Portrait of Petronella de Lange, Wife of Theodorus Frederik van Capellen. Work by Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Teylers Museum, Rijksmuseum and Moravian Gallery in Brno.

• Name — Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout • Born — 6 or 8 February 1793, Antwerp • Died — 25 December 1861, Paris • Education — Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) • Known for — Painting, sculpture, water-colour, pastel and lithography

• Illustration — Madame Chesnaye and her Daughter Eeckhout's birth details are unclear. He was born in Antwerp on either 6 or 8 February 1793. 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. Other pupils were Willem Archibald Bake, Pieter Gerardus Bernhard, Johannes Mattheus Bogman, Louis Antoine Carolus, François De Marneffe, Gijsbertus Arnoldus Gretser, Henri Jean Baptiste Jolly, Willem Hendrik Pauli, Henri Rochussen and Frederik Pieter Thomas Somerschoe.

He painted historical and genre subjects, and portraits. His style and themes went back to the Dutch school of the 17th century painters such as Gerrit Dou and Frans van Mieris. The detailed small-scale works of these Dutch masters were held in high regard by 19th century collectors. His compositions are expressive and lively, and the colouring vigorous. He published in 1822 in Brussels a collection of portraits of contemporary artists born in the Netherlands. He published in 1827 also in Brussels a history of the costumes of the people from all provinces of the Netherlands.

• The Death of William the Silent. • Peter the Great at Zaandam. • The Departure of the Recruits of Scheveningen. • Collection de Portraits d'Artistes modernes, nés dans le royaume des Pays-Bas. 1822.

The authorities additionally record the headings Jacob Joseph Eeckhout, Jacques Joseph Eeckhout, Jakob Josef Eeckhout, Jakob Joseph Eeckhout and Jacob Josef Eeckhoudt. His recorded language was Dutch. One child is recorded: Victor Eeckhout.

Works recorded as notable number 4: Household troubles, The Marriage of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (Jacoba of Bavaria), and John IV, Duke of Brabant, on 10 March 1418, Portrait of Jonkheer Theodorus Frederik van Capellen, Vice-Admiral and Commander of the Dutch Squadron at Algiers in 1816 and Portrait of Petronella de Lange, Wife of Theodorus Frederik van Capellen. His recorded genre is portrait.

Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout is recorded as painter, sculptor and lithographer.