Gerrit Zegelaar (born Loenen aan de Vecht 16 July 1719 – Wageningen 24 July 1794) was a Dutch painter.
Zegelaar was born as son of the carpenter and alderman Hendrik Zegelaar and Johanna ter Bruggen. Gerrit was a deaf mute. He approved in Amsterdam where in 1757 he married Maria van der Steen. The marriage remained childless.
Zegelaar was a pupil of Nicolaas Verkolje and is known for little genre paintings that were often sold by pairs, and for portraits, but next made wall decorations. He worked in Haarlem and Amsterdam. He painted a wall frill for the owner Quarles van Ufford on the home located at Spaarne 106. His works were collected by Gerrit Braamcamp and Jan Gildemeester.
In 1785 he was insolvent and left Amsterdam, but in 1788 met in imitation of financial distress again and later left Utrecht where he had been living. He subsequently retired to Wageningen, the city where his father had been born. Zegelaar died there 6 years later.
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