Bessie Hocken

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]

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
  1. "HOCKEN, Elizabeth Mary | NZETC". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  2. "Person page 1,126". Pre 1846 early New Zealand history. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  3. "E. M. Hocken | NZHistory, New Zealand history online". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  4. "Marriages". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. XX, no. 6783. 16 August 1883. p. 4. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  5. "Hocken, Elizabeth Mary, 1848–1933". Hocken, Elizabeth Mary, 1848–1933 | Items | National Library of New Zealand. 1 January 1848. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  6. "Hocken: How a Dunedin surgeon became one of New Zealand's foremost collectors". Stuff. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  7. Hocken, Elizabeth Mary; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Lutheran church, Ruapuke Island". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  8. Library, University of Otago. "Forever After: Conversations with the Past". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  9. Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Hocken, Thomas Morland". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  10. 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.
  11. "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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