Egbert van der Poel (9 March 1621, in Delft – 19 July 1664, in Rotterdam) was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

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, son of a Delft goldsmith.

Life

Van der Poel may have been a student of

Esaias van de Velde Esaias van de Velde (17 May 1587 (baptized) – 18 November 1630 (buried) ) was a Dutch landscape painter. Biography He was born in Amsterdam, where his Flemish father Hans had fled as a Protestant in 1585. He probably studied under his fath ...

and of

Aert van der Neer Aert van der Neer, or Aernout or Artus (c. 16039 November 1677), was a landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, specializing in small night scenes lit only by moonlight and fires, and snowy winter landscapes, both often looking down a canal ...

. According to the

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he was the brother of the painter Adriaen Lievensz van der Poel and a student of

Cornelis Saftleven Cornelis Saftleven (c. 1607 in Gorinchem – 1 June 1681 in Rotterdam) was a Dutch painter who worked in a great variety of genres. Known in particular for his rural genre scenes, his range of subjects was very wide and included portraits, farmho ...

in Rotterdam. Van der Poel was registered with the

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in Delft on October 17, 1650, where he is listed as a landscape painter.Champlin, John Denison; Perkins, Charles Callahan (1887). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Vol. 3. In 1651 van der Poel married Aeltgen Willems van Linschooten in

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, near

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

. 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

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 van der Poel {{DEFAULTSORT:Poel, Egbert Van Der Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters 1621 births 1664 deaths Artists from Delft Painters from Delft