Hofland exhibited 72 paintings at the Royal Academy but the main source of their income was his wife's writing.

[5] In 1839, whilst living beside the Thames, he published a book entitled "The British angler's manual" which set out to describe and advice about all aspects of fly-fishing, angling and trolling.

Hofland said that he had spent a long time preparing this book as he had practised his fishing whilst landscape painting.

Hofland's paintings and resulting engravings are in the Governments Art Collection[3] and in museums or galleries at the University of Reading, Portsmouth, Derby and Sheffield.

[6] Hofland's painting Moonlight inspired a poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon published in The Literary Gazette (1824).