Career
He may possibly have been a student of Esaias van de Velde and of Aert van der Neer. According to the RKD he was the brother of the painter Adriaen Lievensz van der Poel and a student of Cornelis Saftleven in Rotterdam. Van der Poel was registered with the Guild of Street Luke in Delft on October 17, 1650, where he is listed as a landscape painter.
In 1651 van der Poel married Aeltgen Willems van Linschooten in Maassluis, near Rotterdam.
He died in Rotterdam in 1664.
