Egbert Lievensz. van der Poel

Egbert Lievensz. van der Poel was a Dutch Golden Age painter, born in Delft in 1621. He died in Rotterdam in 1664. He was specialised in genre painting and landscapes. In 1650 van der Poel became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Delft, where he was registered as a landscape painter. He was noted for his paintings, depicting the Delft gunpowder explosion on 12 October 1654. Van der Poel might have been a student of Esaias van de Velde and of Aert van der Neer.