Complete chess set with its 32 pieces in wood, stained ivory and in its colour. Anglo-Indian School.Circa 1850. Victor Eeckhout was a Belgian painter, designer, and engraver known especially for his Orientalist paintings. Born in Antwerp, he trained in the art of painting with his father, Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, a prominent Flemish painter who directed the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague.