Martin Zaagmolen

Martin Zaagmolen or Martinus Saeghmolen (buried 1 November 1669) was a Dutch painter.

Zaagmolen was born in Oldenburg. Houbraken notices him as a painter of history, and describes a picture of the Last Judgment by him,^[1] in which were introduced a great number of figures, very poorly drawn and feebly coloured. Saeghmolen operated from 1640 to 1660. He was the master of Jan Luyken, and Michiel van Musscher; so, if he was not a good painter himself, he was a prestigious teacher.

Zaagmolen died in Amsterdam.

References

1. (Dutch) Martinus Zaagmolen biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

• This article incorporates text from the article "Zaagmoolen, Martin" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
• Saeghmolen, Martinus at the RKD databases