 In October 1892, at the age of 26, he was admitted to Oud Meerenberg in Santpoort, which would later become the Provincial Hospital of Noord-Holland.This marked the definitive end of an artistic career that was nipped in the bud and that had already exhibited marked decline after Gerrit's twentieth.Gerrit van Houten died in Santpoort on 18 January 1934 and was buried at the Zuiderbegraafplaats cemetery in Groningen.