Gerrit Zegelaar (1719-1794)
• Was a Dutch Painter.
• Baptized in Loenen aan de Vecht, 16 July 1719.
• Zegelaar was born in Loenen as the son of the carpenter and alderman Hendrik Zegelaar and Johanna ter Bruggen.
• Gerrit was deaf and dumb.
• He established himself as an artist in Amsterdam.
• In 1757 he married Maria van der Steen.
• The marriage remained childless.
• He mainly painted genre pieces and portraits, and made landscape drawings and watercolors.
• In 1785, the commissioners of the Desolate Estate Chamber in Amsterdam dealt with the insolvent estate of Maria van der Steen and Gerrit Zegelaar, master painter.
• Due to their financial problems, the couple moved to Utrecht.
• They must have gone to Wageningen at the end of 1788.
• Gerrit's family lived in Wageningen, so he must have sought shelter there.
• He died in Wageningen in 1794.
