Egbert van der Poel

Egbert van der Poel (9 March 1621 – 19 July 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age genre and landscape painter.

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 17 October 1650, where he is listed as a landscape painter.

His most famous paintings depict the Delft gunpowder explosion of 12 October 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.