POEL ful decorator, in the baroque style, of walls and ceilings in many Florentine palaces and churches, as, for instance, the first corridor of the Uffizi, the portico of the Iimoceuti, and the chapels of the Sacrament and St. Anthony in S. Marco. The hall of the side court to the left in the Pitti Palace was also decorated by him. Ch. Blanc, 35cole flo- rentine ; Burckhardt, 184 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. 717. , POEL, EGBERT VAN DER, born at Delft, baptized March 9, 1G21, died at Rot- terdam, buried July 29, 16(54. Dutch school ; genre and landscape painter. Probably scholar of Esaias van de Yelde, and of Aart van dei 1 Neer ; member of the guild in Delft, Oct. 17, 1(550 ; painted especially conflagra- tions, but also pleasing genre pieces and in- teriors, with life-like figures of clear and warm colouring. Works : View near Delft (1G54), National Gallery, London ; View of Breda after Fire, Mr. Henderson, ib.; Peas- ants before Cottage Door, Man feeding Poul- try, Louvre ; Rustic Interior, Brussels Mu- seum ; Tide rising by Moonlight, Hague Museum ; Interior with Woman and Little Girl (1G40), Explosion of Powder Magazine (1G54), Amsterdam Museum ; Conflagration, Rotterdam Museum ; do., Suermondt Mu- seum, Aix-la-Chapellc ; do., Stockholm Mu- seum ; Conflagration at Night of a Dutch City (1G58), Carlsruhe Gallery ; Nocturnal Festival, Domestic Scene, Cologne Museum ; Burning and Pillage of Italian Town (1GG1), Gallery, Copenhagen ; do., Moltke Collec- tion, ib. ; Fire in a Farmhouse, Christiania Gallery ; Cottage Interior (1G48), Dresden Museum ; Vessels with many Figures by Moonlight, Gotha Museum ; Conflagrations (2), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do. (1), Ferdi- nandeum, Innsbruck ; Farm Yard, Old Pi- nakothek, Munich ; Interior of Peasant Cot- tage, Oldenburg Gallery ; Yard Interior, Conflagrations (3, two dated 1G58, 1GG4), Schwerin Gallery ; Nocturnal Surprise by Robbers, Stuttgart Museum ; Peasant Fam- ily by Cottage (1G47), Museum, Vienna ; Annunciation to the Shepherds, Conflagra- tions (2, one dated 1654), Peasant Room (1646), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Fishmon- gers on Seashore, Czernin Gallery, ib. ; Burn- ing of a Ship near Amsterdam, Fishermen on Seashore, Turin Gallery ; Three Kitchen Pieces (1647, 1659, 1664), Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Winter Scene, Burning of Cot- tage at Night (2), Historical Society, New York. By A. van der Poel, probably broth- er of Egbert, is in the Darmstadt Museum : Skating near a Village (1652). Immerzeel, ii. 31(5 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 425 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole hollandaise ; De Stuers, 106. POELENBURG (Poeleuborch), CORNE- LIS VAN, born at Utrecht in 1586, died there, Aug. 12, 1667. Dutch school; history and land- scape painter, pupil of Abraham Bloe- maert; went early to Rome, where he took Elsheimer for his model, and studied Raphael. His small land- scapes, enlivened with nymphs or figures taken from sacred history, are tender in colour, but fail in composition and draw- ing. He was invited by the Grand Duke to remain at Florence, but preferred to return home, where he was treated with much dis- tinction. Rubens visited him, and Charles I. invited him to England. Free of the guild at Utrecht, 1649; master in 1664. Works : Landscape, New York Museum ; do. (3), Historical Society, New York ; Ruin with Bathing Women, National Gallery, Lon- don ; Campo Vaccino, Buckingham Palace, ib.; Diana and Nymph Bathing, Ruins of Hot Baths of Diocletian, Madrid Museum ; 454