| Egbert van der Poel | |
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Delft Explosion of 1654, c. 1654 |
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| Born | March 9, 1621 Delft, Dutch Republic |
| Died | July 19, 1664 (aged 43) Rotterdam, Dutch Republic |
| Field | Painting |
| Movement | Dutch Golden Age painting |
| Influenced by | Esaias van de Velde, Aert van der Neer |
Egbert van der Poel (Delft, 1621 - Rotterdam, 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age genre and landscape painter, son of a Delft goldsmith.
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.