Christiaan van Pol

Pol was born in Berkenrode, a small town of about ten Catholic families 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.

[1] He then travelled with them to Paris in 1782 where he at first spent time making decorative arabesques and painting flower arrangements in miniature on snuffbox lids.

He also made designs for the Gobelins Manufactory and his considered a pupil of Van Dael because of similarities to his work, though he was much older than him.

Pol died in Paris and Pierre-Louis Dagoty bought his largest flower piece.