Jan Vermaat
Vermaat was born in Maasland as the eighth and last child of a tailor. His father started working at the Defense clothing depot, which is located in Woerden Castle. When he is three months old, the family starting living at the Kruittorenweg in Woerden. Initially he went to the Wilhelmina School, and later to the Emma School. Especially at the Emma school he started to express his sense of art. After primary school, Vermaat followed an evening study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Utrecht, a training institute that was called  at the time. During his studies he worked for the Utrecht University, where he made technical drawings of archaeological history.