Juriaen Pool

Juriaen Pool (bapt. 17 January 1666, Amsterdam – 6 October 1745, Amsterdam), was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic best known as the husband of Rachel Ruysch, with whom he had ten children.

Self-portrait in allegorical scene for the orphanage. He is shown wearing the traditional orphan clothing with a red jacket and a blue sleeve.

Juriaan and his wife Rachel Pool, engraving from Jan van Gool's Nieuwe Schouburg, 1750

Biography

According to the RKD he was the son of Jurriaan Pool the elder.^[1] He became engaged on 25 July 1693 and on 12 August he married the flower painter Rachel Ruysch in Buiksloot.^[1] He became the teacher of the painter Gerhard Jan Palthe.^[1]