William Hooker (botanical illustrator)

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, whose publications he illustrated. His paintings of fruit were particularly appreciated.

Hooker also worked on the Oriental Memoirs of James Forbes and The Paradisus Londinensis, with descriptions by Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761–1829). He contributed illustrations for Hooker's Finest Fruits until his death in 1832.

The standard author abbreviation W.Hook. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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