Elizabeth Mary Hocken (née Buckland; 25 October 1848 – 19 April 1933), was a New Zealand artist and translator.

Biography

Hocken was born in

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on 25 October 1848 to merchants William Buckland and Susan (née Channing). On 24 July 1883, she married

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'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 from 1887 to 1914. Her brothers were politicians Frank Buckland and John Buckland and her niece was photographer

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. Hocken died in

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, South Africa on 19 April 1933.

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1848 births 1933 deaths 19th-century New Zealand painters People from Auckland Buckland family New Zealand women photographers 19th-century New Zealand women artists {{NewZealand-painter-stub