Egbert Lievensz van der Poel

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Egbert Lievensz van der Poel (1621-1664)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age genre and landscape painter.
• Poel was a son of a Delft goldsmith.
• Van der Poel may 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.
• Van der Poel was registered with the Guild of St Luke in Delft on October 17, 1650.
• 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.
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Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Nocturnal fire, 1654-1664

Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Peasants Fleeing a Burning Barn, about 1655

Original, Detroit Institute of Arts. Visited in 2020.

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Peasants Fleeing a Burning Barn, about 1655

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Peasants Fleeing a Burning Barn, about 1655

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Skating Scene, 1656

Original, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Visited in 2019.

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Skating Scene, 1656

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Barnyard Scene with Two Figures and a Cart, late 1640s

Original, Worcester Art Museum, MA. Visited in 2020.

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Barnyard Scene with Two Figures and a Cart, late 1640s

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Peasant feeding chickens, 1655

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Peasant feeding chickens, 1655

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Peasant feeding chickens, 1655

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Fire in a village, 1625 - 1650

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Fire in a village, 1625 - 1650

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, The Beach at Scheveningen with Fish Market, 1658

Original, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Visited in 2022.

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Interior of a farmhouse tavern, c. 1650-60

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Interior of a farmhouse tavern, c. 1650-60