Bessie Hocken Explained

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).[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.[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.

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.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Platts, Una . Una Platts . Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook . Avon Fine Prints . 1980 . Christchurch, N.Z. . en . Hocken, Elizabeth Mary . 7736615 . 31 August 2019 . https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-PlaNine-t1-body-d1-d582.html . https://web.archive.org/web/20230201041036/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-PlaNine-t1-body-d1-d582.html . 1 February 2023 . live . New Zealand Electronic Text Collection.
  2. Web site: 16 June 2017 . Susan Channing - F, #28139 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190902000959/http://www.names.nzearlyhistory.com/g2/p1126.htm . 2 September 2019 . 2 September 2019 . Pre 1846 early New Zealand history . Daughter - Elizabeth Mary Buckland (b. 25 October 1848).
  3. Web site: E. M. Hocken . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190212112410/https://nzhistory.govt.nz/suffragist/e-m-hocken . 12 February 2019 . 31 August 2019 . New Zealand History . Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  4. News: 16 August 1883 . Marriages . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211214212707/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18830816.2.15 . 14 December 2021 . 14 December 2021 . . 4 . . XX . 6783.
  5. Web site: Hocken, Elizabeth Mary, 1848–1933 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230625050712/https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22413879 . 25 June 2023 . 31 August 2019 . . en.
  6. Web site: Agnew . Trevor . 4 August 2015 . Hocken: How a Dunedin surgeon became one of New Zealand's foremost collectors . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190831104648/https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/70677139/ . 31 August 2019 . 31 August 2019 . . en.
  7. Web site: Derby . Mark . 20 Apr 2018 . 5 May 2011 . Diverse Christian churches - Lutheran, Dutch Reformed and Brethren churches: Lutheran church, Ruapuke Island . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230528234652/https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/31104/lutheran-church-ruapuke-island . 28 May 2023 . 31 August 2019 . . . en.
  8. Web site: 2013 . Hocken Exhibitions - Forever After: Conversations with the Past . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190831103816/https://www.otago.ac.nz/library/hocken/exhibitions/otago039025.html . 31 August 2019 . 31 August 2019 . . . en-nz.
  9. Web site: Strachan . S. R. . 1993 . Hocken, Thomas Morland . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240301104656/https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2h39/hocken-thomas-morland . 1 March 2024 . 31 August 2019 . . . . en.
  10. Book: Mitchell, Lissa . . 2023 . 978-0-9951384-9-0 . Wellington, New Zealand . 275 . en . 1374563763.
  11. Hearnshaw . Vickie . 1997 . A Study in Black and White: The Life and Work of Photographer Jessie Buckland . Women's Studies Journal . en . 13 . 1 . 43 . .
  12. News: 24 May 1933 . Official notification: Death of Mrs. T. M. Hockin . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190902000958/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/STEP19330524.2.17 . 2 September 2019 . 2 September 2019 . Stratford Evening Post . 3 . . II . 251.

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