Hendrik Spilman - selfportrait with his family

Hendrik Spilman (1721,

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– 1784,

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), was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the

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Biography

Hendrik Spilman - Gezigt by de Hofstede Meer-en-Berg Heemstede

According to the RKD he spent his working life in Haarlem, where he enrolled in 1742 as a member of the

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.Hendrik Spilman
in the

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He was a pupil of

Abraham de Haen Abraham de Haen (6 April 1707 in Amsterdam – 8 August 1748 in Amsterdam), also known as Abraham de Haan, was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver known particularly for his drawings of castles and manors. He was also a painter and poet. He referred ...

, 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, and

Cornelis van Noorde Cornelis van Noorde (1731 – 1795) was an 18th-century landscape painter and drawer from the Dutch Republic. Biography He was born in 1731, in Haarlem. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was the son of Rijkes van No ...

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 Isaak Tirion (1705 in Utrecht – 1765 in Amsterdam) was an 18th-century publisher from the Dutch Republic. Biography According to the RKD, he is most remembered for his ''Hedendaagsche historie'' (''Modern History'') and his ''Vaderlandse Histor ...

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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