William Hooker (botanical illustrator)

{{distinguish|William Jackson Hooker}}

{{Short description|British illustrator (1779–1832)}}

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William Hooker (1779–1832) was a British illustrator of natural history. He studied under Franz Bauer (1758–1840), becoming the official artist of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1812 until retirement in 1820,{{cite web |title=HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London ... [Bound with:] Transactions ... Second Series |url=https://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/29434/horticultural-society-of-london/transactions-of-the-horticultural-society-of-london-bound-with-transactions-second-series |website=Donald A Heald - rare books, prints and maps |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417105330/https://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/29434/horticultural-society-of-london/transactions-of-the-horticultural-society-of-london-bound-with-transactions-second-series |accessdate=15 September 2020|archive-date=17 April 2018 }} whose publications he illustrated. His paintings of fruit were particularly appreciated.{{cite book |last1=Blunt |first1=Wilfred |last2=Stearn |first2=William T |title=The Art of Botanical Illustration |date=1950 |publisher=Antique Collectors' Club |isbn=978-1851491773 |edition=First}}{{Cite web|title='English fruit illustration in the early nineteenth century. Part 2: Hooker, Withers and the Horticultural Society' in Studies in the History of British fruit, part 2, Occasional Paper from the RHS Lindley Library, volume 7, March 2012|url=https://rhs.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/custom/web/SD_PDF/occasional-papers-mar2012.pdf}}

Hooker also worked on the Oriental Memoirs of James Forbes and The Paradisus Londinensis, with descriptions by Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761–1829).{{cite book|last1=Blunt|first1=Wilfrid|last2=Stearn|first2=William Thomas|authorlink2=William Thomas Stearn|year=1994|title=The Art of Botanical Illustration. An Illustrated History [1950 edition]|publisher=Dover|place=New York|pages=xxxii, 304|isbn=0-486-27265-6}} He contributed illustrations for Hooker's Finest Fruits until his death in 1832.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kingandmcgaw.com/prints/charles-john-robertson/strawberry-wilmot-s-superb-426176#426176::media:1_size:343,400|title = Sorry, no results were found | King & McGaw}}

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