Bessie Hocken
Elizabeth Mary Hocken (née Buckland; 25 October 1848 – 19 April 1933), was a New Zealand artist and translator.[1]
Biography[edit]
Hocken was born in Auckland on 25 October 1848 to merchants William Buckland and Susan (née Channing).[1][2] On 24 July 1883, she married Dunedin-based doctor Thomas Hocken at Invercargill's St John's Church.[3][4] 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.[5][6] She painted original works and also copied historical works from private collections to add to those acquired by her husband.[7][8] Hocken also helped her husband translate the text of Abel Tasman’s 1642 voyage from Dutch to English.[3][9]
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.[5]
Her brothers were politicians Frank Buckland and John Buckland and her niece was photographer Jessie Buckland.[10]
Hocken died in Johannesburg, South Africa on 19 April 1933.[1][11]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "HOCKEN, Elizabeth Mary | NZETC". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "Person page 1,126". Pre 1846 early New Zealand history. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ a b "E. M. Hocken | NZHistory, New Zealand history online". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "Marriages". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. XX, no. 6783. 16 August 1883. p. 4. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Hocken, Elizabeth Mary, 1848–1933". Hocken, Elizabeth Mary, 1848–1933 | Items | National Library of New Zealand. 1 January 1848. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "Hocken: How a Dunedin surgeon became one of New Zealand's foremost collectors". Stuff. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ Hocken, Elizabeth Mary; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Lutheran church, Ruapuke Island". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ Library, University of Otago. "Forever After: Conversations with the Past". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Hocken, Thomas Morland". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ Hearnshaw, Vickie (1997). "A Study in Black and White: The Life and Work of Photographer Jessie Buckland". Women's Studies Journal. 13 (1): 43. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Official notification: death of Mrs. T. M. Hockin [sic]". Stratford Evening Post. 24 May 1933. p. 3. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
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