Elvina de Beuzeville

Also known as Elvina E. Beuzeville
  • Artist (Painter)
Two watercolour paintings by Elvina de Beuzeville are now in the Mitchell Library at the State Library of New South Wales. They depict the front and rear views of Esrom House in Bathurst where de Beuzeville was living in 1868 with her family.

watercolourist, painted front and rear views of Esrom House, Bathurst, built in 1834 (Mitchell Library). Her drawings were probably made in about 1868 while the Beuzeville family was living there. Elvina was one of the two surviving daughters of James Beuzeville and Jane, née Myles. The house was called Esrom after the Danish town from which her parents had come to New South Wales after spending some years in Singapore. The surname 'de Beuzeville’ was used by subsequent generations of the family.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011