Burnell Poole

Place: Boston

Born: 1884

Death: 1933

Biography:

Burnell Poole was an American naval artist, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1884. He married in 1920 to his only wife, Constance, and had a son, Burnell Poole Jr., in 1924. Poole was commissioned by the Navy as a war artist to paint oil canvases of warships at sea during the First World War. He took hundreds of photographs of the work of US Navy shipyards and painted a variety of canvases of scenes of ships in action, including of the destroyer USS Allen escorting the troopship USS Leviathan. Poole died at Englewood, New Jersey, in 1933. He has been described as 'among the most accomplished marine artists of the first half of the 20th century'; he left many aquatints of yachts and other maritime scenes.