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 *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 Innocenti, 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, École florentine; Burckhardt, 184; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 717.

POEL, EGBERT VAN DER, born at Delft, baptized March 9, 1621, died at Rotterdam, buried July 29, 1664. Dutch school; genre and landscape painter. Probably scholar of Esaias van de Velde, and of Aart van der Neer; member of the guild in Delft, Oct. 17, 1650; painted especially conflagrations, but also pleasing genre pieces and interiors, with life-like figures of clear and warm colouring. Works: View near Delft (1654), National Gallery, London; View of Breda after Fire, Mr. Henderson, ib.; Peasants before Cottage Door, Man feeding Poultry, Louvre; Rustic Interior, Brussels Museum; Tide rising by Moonlight, Hague Museum; Interior with Woman and Little Girl (1646), Explosion of Powder Magazine (1654), Amsterdam Museum; Conflagration, Rotterdam Museum; do., Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; do., Stockholm Museum; Conflagration at Night of a Dutch City (1658), Carlsruhe Gallery; Nocturnal Festival, Domestic Scene, Cologne Museum; Burning and Pillage of Italian Town (1661), Gallery, Copenhagen; do., Moltke Collection, ib.; Fire in a Farmhouse, Christiania Gallery; Cottage Interior (1648), Dresden Museum; Vessels with many Figures by Moonlight, Gotha Museum; Conflagrations (2), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do. (1), Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Farm Yard, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Interior of Peasant Cottage, Oldenburg Gallery; Yard Interior, Conflagrations (3, two dated 1658, 1664), Schwerin Gallery; Nocturnal Surprise by Robbers, Stuttgart Museum; Peasant Family by Cottage (1647), Museum, Vienna; Annunciation to the Shepherds, Conflagrations (2, one dated 1654), Peasant Room (1646), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Fishmongers on Seashore, Czernin Gallery, ib.; Burning of a Ship near Amsterdam, Fishermen on Seashore, Turin Gallery; Three Kitchen Pieces (1647, 1659, 1664), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Winter Scene, Burning of Cottage at Night (2), Historical Society, New York. By A. van der Poel, probably brother of Egbert, is in the Darmstadt Museum: Skating near a Village (1652).—Immerzeel, ii. 316; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 425; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; De Stuers, 106.

POELENBURG (Poelenborch), CORNELIS VAN, born at Utrecht in 1586, died there, Aug. 12, 1667. Dutch school; history and landscape painter, pupil of Abraham Bloemaert; went early to Rome, where he took Elsheimer for his model, and studied Raphael. His small landscapes, enlivened with nymphs or figures taken from sacred history, are tender in colour, but fail in composition and drawing. He was invited by the Grand Duke to remain at Florence, but preferred to return home, where he was treated with much distinction. 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, London; Campo Vaccino, Buckingham Palace, ib.; Diana and Nymph Bathing, Ruins of Hot Baths of Diocletian, Madrid Museum;