Elizabeth Hocken
Elizabeth Mary Hocken, was an artist and translator from New Zealand.Biography
Hocken was born in Auckland on 25 October 1848 to merchants William Thorne Buckland and Susan. In 1883 she married Dunedin-based doctor Thomas Morland Hocken in Invercargill. Her husband was a keen collector of documents describing early European settlement in New Zealand, and Hocken used her skills in painting, photography and translation to assist him in recording and illustrating his historical work. She painted original works and also copied historical works from private collections to add to those acquired by her husband. Hocken also helped her husband translate the text of Abel Tasman’s 1642 voyage from Dutch to English.
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.
Hocken died in Johannesburg, South Africa on 19 April 1933.
