Elizabeth_Hocken

Bessie Hocken

Bessie Hocken

New Zealand artist and translator

Elizabeth Mary Hocken (née Buckland; 25 October 1848 – 19 April 1933), was a New Zealand artist and translator.[1]

Biography

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]

She was one of the first women to join the Dunedin Photographic Society in April 1892.[10]

Her brothers were politicians Frank Buckland and John Buckland and her niece was photographer Jessie Buckland.[11]

Hocken died in Johannesburg, South Africa on 19 April 1933.[1][12]

References

  1. [1]
    Platts, Una (1980). "Hocken, Elizabeth Mary". Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook. Christchurch, N.Z.: Avon Fine Prints. OCLC 7736615. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2019 – via New Zealand Electronic Text Collection.
  2. [2]
    "Susan Channing - F, #28139". Pre 1846 early New Zealand history. 16 June 2017. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019. Daughter - Elizabeth Mary Buckland (b. 25 October 1848)
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    "E. M. Hocken". New Zealand History. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Marriages". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. XX, no. 6783. 16 August 1883. p. 4. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021 – via Papers Past.
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    "Hocken, Elizabeth Mary, 1848–1933". National Library of New Zealand. Archived from the original on 25 June 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  6. [6]
    Agnew, Trevor (4 August 2015). "Hocken: How a Dunedin surgeon became one of New Zealand's foremost collectors". Stuff. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
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    Derby, Mark (20 April 2018) [5 May 2011]. "Diverse Christian churches - Lutheran, Dutch Reformed and Brethren churches: Lutheran church, Ruapuke Island". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage - Te Manatu Taonga. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  8. [8]
    "Hocken Exhibitions - Forever After: Conversations with the Past". University of Otago Library. University of Otago. 2013. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  9. [9]
    Strachan, S. R. (1993). "Hocken, Thomas Morland". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga. Archived from the original on 1 March 2024. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  10. [10]
    Mitchell, Lissa (2023). Through Shaded Glass: Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960. Wellington, New Zealand: Te Papa Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-9951384-9-0. OCLC 1374563763.
  11. [11]
    Hearnshaw, Vickie (1997). "A Study in Black and White: The Life and Work of Photographer Jessie Buckland". Women's Studies Journal. 13 (1): 43. ProQuest 1306154856.
  12. [12]
    "Official notification: Death of Mrs. T. M. Hockin [sic]". Stratford Evening Post. Vol. II, no. 251. 24 May 1933. p. 3. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019 – via Papers Past.


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