VAN DER POLL Daniël Herbert ('Herbert')
THE TIGER
Oil on canvas: 64 x 92 cm / 25.2 x 36.2 in
Signed lower left
Painter of portraits, animals, flowers and plants; draughtsman, etcher and lithographer.
Daniël Herbert van der Poll was a pupil at the Amsterdam Academy.
He lived and worked in Antwerp and Amsterdam.
He specialised in painting animals, but he also painted flowers and plants.
He was a member and secretary of ‘Arti et Amicitae’ in Amsterdam. In 1925 he was awarded a gold medal by Queen Wilhelmina.
He taught at the Amsterdam Academy until 1942.
Period:
Amsterdam 1877 - 1963
Dutch School
Exhibitions:
Otterlo
Literature:
P. Scheen, "Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars; 1750-1880", The Hague 1981, p. 406.
