Laurens Johannes Bol (23 January 1898, in Ooltgensplaat – 11 April 1994, in Dordrecht) was an art historian who specialized in 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painters.
[1] He became an expert on Dutch masters from Middelburg and is credited with the "discovery" of Adriaen Coorte.
He became a regular visitor of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, and was particularly interested in less popular Dutch masters.
In his thirty years as a resident of Middelburg, he wrote regularly for the NRC and Openbaar Kunstbezit.
Although the museum had very little funding Bol made some exquisite exhibitions in his time.