Elizabeth Mary Hocken (née Buckland; 25 October 1848 – 19 April 1933), was a New Zealand artist and translator.
Biography
Hocken was born in
Auckland on 25 October 1848 to merchants
William Buckland and Susan (née Channing).
On 24 July 1883, she married
Dunedin-based doctor
Thomas Hocken
Thomas Morland Hocken (14 January 1836 – 17 May 1910) was a New Zealand collector, bibliographer and researcher.
Early life
He was born in Rutlandshire on 14 January 1836, the son of Wesleyan minister Joshua Hocken, and educated at Woodhouse ...
at
Invercargill's
St John's Church.
Her husband was a keen collector of documents describing early European settlement in New Zealand, and Hocken used her skills in painting (oils and water-colours), photography and translation to assist him in recording and illustrating his historical work.
She painted original works and also copied historical works from private collections to add to those acquired by her husband. Hocken also helped her husband translate the text of
Abel Tasman’s 1642 voyage from Dutch to English.
Hocken was awarded a prize for flower painting at the
New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin in 1889–90, and exhibited with the
Otago Art Society
Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...
from 1887 to 1914.
Her brothers were politicians
Frank Buckland and
John Buckland and her niece was photographer
Jessie Buckland
Jessie Lillian Buckland (9 May 1878 – 8 June 1939) was a New Zealand photographer.
Life and career
Buckland was born in Tumai, Otago, New Zealand on 9 May 1878. Her parents were Caroline Fairburn and John Buckland and she was one out of se ...
.
Hocken died in
Johannesburg, South Africa on 19 April 1933.
References
1848 births
1933 deaths
19th-century New Zealand painters
People from Auckland
Buckland family
New Zealand women photographers
19th-century New Zealand women artists
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