William Hoogland (c.1794–1832) was an engraver in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York in the early 19th-century.[1][2] "Career obscure; but was a designer and engraver of banknotes in New York in 1815."[3] In Boston, contemporaries included Abel Bowen, Annin & Smith, and J.V. Throop.[4][5] He taught engraving to Joseph Andrews.[6]
"
Constitution's escape from the British squadron;" engraved by Hoogland. From Abel Bowen's
Naval Monument, 1816
"Miniature portraits of the
Marquis Lafayette, ... neatly engraved by ... Mr. Hoogland, printed on satin, for ladies' belts, and gentlemen's badges or watch ribands, are for sale at Goodrich's in
State-street, and at
Doggett's in Market-St.," August 1824
Frontispiece,
Boston Monthly Magazine; engraved by Hoogland, 1825
Portrait of
Eli Whitney, after a painting by
Charles Bird King; engraved by Hoogland, ca.1820s
Portrait of
William E. Channing, after a painting by
Chester Harding; engraved by Hoogland, 1829
Portrait of
Alexander Pope; engraved by Hoogland, ca.1820s-1830s
"William Hoogland, engraver, 2 Congress Square." Boston Directory. 1823.
Grolier Club. Catalogue of an exhibition of early American engraving upon copper]: 1727-1850, with 296 examples by 147 different engravers. De Vinne Press, 1908; p.40-41
Miniature portraits of the Marquis Lafayette. Boston Commercial Gazette, Aug. 23, 1824.
William Dunlap. History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, Volume 2. George P. Scott and Co., Printers, 1834; p.469
"Joseph Andrews." National cyclopaedia of American biography, v.11. 1901; p.77.