the stipple method. He was especially noted for his engraved portraits, which were very numerous, some being executed for Lodge's ‘Portraits’ (1821); was employed in engraving Corbould's drawings of the antique marbles in the British Museum, and engraved, among other subjects, ‘The Boar which killed Adonis brought before Venus,’ after R. Westall. Holl was a man of retiring disposition, and his work often appeared under the name of others. He was an advanced liberal in politics, and at the time of the Spa Fields riots in December 1816 exposed himself to great risk by concealing the ringleader, Watson. Holl died in London, 1 Dec. 1838. He had four sons, Benjamin, who practised engraving for a short time; William [see below]; Francis [q. v.], A.R.A.; and Charles (d. 1882), who also practised as an engraver.
Holl, William, the younger (1807–1871), second son of the above, born at Plaistow, Essex, in February 1807, learnt engraving from his father, whose stipple method he adopted for some time, though he subsequently became a line-engraver on steel. He engraved numerous portraits for Lodge's ‘Portraits,’ Knight's ‘Gallery of Portraits,’ Finden's ‘Portraits of the Female Aristocracy,’ &c. He also executed plates for Blackie's ‘Bible,’ T. Moore's ‘Poems,’ and other works. He engraved after W. P. Frith, R.A., ‘An English Merrymaking,’ ‘The Village Pastor,’ ‘Ruth in the Field of Boaz,’ &c.; pictures after J. Absolon, C. Baxter, J. Faed, A. Elmore, B. West, and others; and a number of portraits of members of the ‘Grillion Club,’ drawn by G. Richmond, R.A. At the time of his death he was engaged on an engraving for the Art Union of ‘Rebekah,’ after F. Goodall, R.A., which was completed by his brother Charles Holl, and his assistant F. A. Roberts. Holl died in London, 30 Jan. 1871, after a long illness. He was an industrious worker, and his engravings are highly esteemed. He frequently worked in conjunction with his brother Francis Holl, A.R.A.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Dodd's manuscript Hist. of Engl. Engravers (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 33402); Art Journal, 1871, p. 102; private information.]
HOLLAND, Earl of (1589?–1649). [See Rich, Henry.]
HOLLAND, Lords. [See Fox, Henry, 1705–1774, first Lord; Fox, Henry Richard Vassall, 1773–1840, third Lord.]
HOLLAND, Lady (1770–1845}, wife of the third lord. [See Fox, Elizabeth Vassall.]
HOLLAND, ABRAHAM (d. 1626), poet, a son of Philemon Holland [q. v.], was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1616–17 (Camb. Univ. Reg.) He published in 1622 ‘Naumachia, or Hollands Sea-Fight. Non equidem invideo,’ 4to, with a dedication to George, lord Gordon, son and heir to the Marquis of Huntly, and commendatory verses by Michael Drayton and others. ‘Naumachia’ gives a description of the battle of Lepanto; it is preceded by an amusing ‘Caveat to his Muse.’ Appended to the 1625 edition of John Davies of Hereford's ‘A Scourge for Paper-Persecutors’ is ‘A Continued Inquisition against Paper-Persecutors by A. H.,’ undoubtedly by Abraham Holland, and very similar in character to the ‘Caveat.’ He died 18 Feb. 1625–6. In 1626 appeared ‘Hollandi Posthuma. … The Posthumes of Abraham Holland, sometimes of Trinity College in Cambridge,’ &c., Cambridge, 4to, edited by his brother, Henry Holland [q. v.], who dedicated the volume to George, lord Gordon. The collection consists of elegies on King James and Henry, earl of Oxford, a poem on the plague of 1625, a poetical epistle to Philemon Holland, a ‘Resolution against Death,’ prose meditations and prayers, and his own epitaph composed by himself. The poem on the plague was appended in 1630 to ‘Salomon's Pest-House or Towre-Royall. … By I. D.’ In Ashmole MS. 36–7, fol. 157, is a poem by Holland ‘To my honest father, Mr. Michael Drayton, and my new, yet loved friend, Mr. Will. Browne.’
[Hunter's Chorus Vatum, Addit. MS. 24488, f. 262; Corser's Collectanea.]
HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769), actor, the son of John Holland, a baker, was born in 1733 in Chiswick, and apprenticed to a turpentine merchant. As Oroonoko, on 13 Feb. 1755, to the Imoinda of Mrs. Cibber, the Daniel of Yates, and the Blandford of Palmer, he made at Drury Lane his first appearance on any stage. Acting under Garrick he took at once to imitating his master, for which he was scourged by Churchill in the ‘Rosciad,’ ll. 322–336. In his first season he played Dorilas in ‘Merope,’ George Barnwell, Hamlet, and Chamont, and was the original Florizel in the ‘Winter's Tale, or Florizel and Perdita,’ Garrick's alteration of Shakespeare. He remained at Drury Lane until 1769, playing Jaffier, Romeo, Ferdinand in the ‘Tempest,’ Young Norval, Hotspur, Juba, Iago, Iachimo, Bajazet, Macbeth, Oakley, Faulconbridge, Prospero, and very many characters of primary importance. His original parts included Hamet in Murphy's ‘Orphan of China,’ 21 April
