Egbert van der Poel
| Egbert van der Poel | |
|---|---|
 Delft Explosion of 1654, c. 1654 | |
| Born |
March 9, 1621 Delft, Dutch Republic |
| Died |
July 19, 1664 (aged 43) Rotterdam, Dutch Republic |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Dutch Golden Age painting |
Egbert van der Poel (1621 in Delft – 1664 in Rotterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age genre and landscape painter, son of a Delft goldsmith.
Life
He may possibly have been a student of Esaias van de Velde and of Aert van der Neer. According to the RKD he was the brother of the painter Adriaen Lievensz van der Poel and a student of Cornelis Saftleven in Rotterdam.[1] Van der Poel was registered with the Guild of St Luke in Delft on October 17, 1650, where he is listed as a landscape painter.[2] In 1651 van der Poel married Aeltgen Willems van Linschooten in Maassluis, near Rotterdam. His most famous paintings depict the Delft gunpowder explosion of October 12, 1654 and its aftermath; he and his wife were living in the area at the time. Egbert and Aeltgen van der Poel had a son and three daughters. He died in Rotterdam in 1664.
References
- ↑ RKD entry for Egbert Lievensz van der Poel
- ↑ John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins. Cyclopedia of painters and paintings, Volume 3, 1887.
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External links
- Works and literature on Egbert van der Poel
- Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Egbert van der Poel