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Hendrik Spilman (1721,
Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
– 1784,
Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
), was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands.


Biography

According to the RKD he spent his working life in Haarlem, where he enrolled in 1742 as a member of the
Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke The Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke was first a Christian, and later a city Guild for various trades falling under the patron saints Luke the Evangelist and Saint Eligius. History During the lifetime of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, there was probably a ...
.Hendrik Spilman
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He was a pupil of Abraham de Haen, who trained him as a painter and draughtsman, but he is best known for his topographical drawings and engravings of cityscapes and important buildings. He made engravings after drawings by de Haen,
Jan de Beijer Jan de Beijer (24 September 1703 – c. 1780), also given as Jan de Beyer, was a Dutch draughtsman and painter known for this drawings of towns and buildings in the present-day countries of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In total, he produ ...
,
Cornelis Pronk Cornelis Pronk (10 December 1691 – 28 or 29 September 1759), also known as Cornelis Pronck, was a Dutch draughtsman, painter and porcelain designer. He is known particularly for his numerous drawings of cities, towns and buildings (so-call ...
, and
Cornelis van Noorde Cornelis van Noorde (1731 – 1795) was an 18th-century landscape painter and draughtsman from the Northern Netherlands. Biography He was born in 1731, in Haarlem. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was the son of R ...
in addition to his own work for various publications.


Published works

*''Het verheerlykt Nederland of Kabinet van Hedendaagsche gezigten''. This nine-part work was published between 1745 and 1774 by Isaac Tirion in Amsterdam as an illustration to his ''Hedendaagsche historie of Tegenwoordige Staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden'' *''Aangenaame Gezichten in de vermakelyke landsdouwen van Haarlem'', with engravings by Spilman and van Noorde, 1761 *''Nederlandsche tafereelen; of eene keurige verzameling van negen honderd fraaije gezigten van steden, dorpen, sloten, oudheden, adelyke huizen, hofsteden, kerken, torens, poorten, gestichten, en veele andere aanzienlyke stads- en landsgebouwen; in en omtrent de zeven vereenigde Nederlandsche provintien'', with engravings by Spilman, Pronk, De Beijer, and Adriaen van Swijndrecht, 1792


References


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Spilman, Hendrik 1721 births 1784 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Dutch engravers Painters from Haarlem Painters from Amsterdam