She followed in his footsteps and studied at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam and the Akademie van beeldende kunsten (Den Haag) (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague).

Her teachers included Carel Lodewijk Dake (1857-1918), Jacob Hendrik Geerlings, Frits Jansen [nl], and Egbert Schaap.

When he died in 1911, she decided to liquidate the family collection and in doing so, managed to cobble together a selection to donate to the Rijksmuseum that would be worthy of tax exemption from Dutch inheritance tax, a method that had been used by Julie Amelie Charlotte Castelnau successfully in London for the Wallace collection.

The law was changed in 1912 and her selection was accepted by the board of governors, who already knew her brother-in-law Ferdinand Kranenburg well from the Hoogendijk loan that had been on show there since 1907.

[3] Hoogendijk's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.