Christiaen van Pol (1752 - 1813)

• Was a painter from the Northern Netherlands.

• Pol was born in Berkenrode, a small town that is now part of Heemstede.

• He probably learned to draw in the tavern there known as the Dorstige Kuil, where the artists Simon Fokke, John Greenwood, Jan Punt and others from the Amsterdamse Tekenacademie would meet during the summer months.

• The historians Roeland van Eynden and Adriaan van der Willigen devoted six pages in their dictionary of artists to him.

• He first trained in Antwerp where he learned "sieraad schilderen", or decorative painting.

• Here he met Gerrit Malleyn and Cornelis van Spaendonck and through him, Gerard van Spaendonck and Jan Frans van Dael.

• He then travelled with them to Paris in 1782.

• He became a good friend of Van Dael, who he stayed close to the rest of his life.

• Like Van Dael, he created oil paintings in the manner of Jan van Huysum.

• He spent the last years of his life teaching. 

• Pol died in Paris.

• Pierre-Louis Dagoty bought his largest flower piece.

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