Career

Very few of the biographical details of this artist are known with any level of certainty. Although there is still no unanimous consensus, it is accepted by most scholars that Vincent Sellaer should be identified with the artist to whom the early 17th century biographer Karel van Mander referred as Vincent Geldersman. Van Mander described Sellaer as a good painter of allegories, such as Leda with two eggs, Susanna and the elders, and Cleopatra with the asp.

Van Mander mentioned him in his of Frans Minnebroer as one of the notable painters of Mechelen.

While many known versions of a Leda and the Swan have been attributed to Sellaer, none has survived that depicts a Leda with eggs. Some art historians such as G.J. Hoogewerff have speculated that Sellaer worked for some time in Brescia and may have visited other Italian cultural centres.

This Italian stay would be situated in the years 1521 to 1524.