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