Hendrik Spilman (1721, Amsterdam – 1784, Haarlem), was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands.
According to the RKD he spent his practicing life in Haarlem, where he enrolled in 1742 as a believer of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke. 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, Cornelis Pronk, and Cornelis van Noorde in accessory to his own appear in for various publications.
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