Lucelle Frances Beetham
Lucelle Frances Beetham was a New Zealand artist and natural history illustrator.Lucelle Frances Swainson was born on 24 March 1842, the second daughter of the naturalist William John Swainson and Anne Grasby. She grew up in the Hutt Valley; on 17 September 1863 she married magistrate and artist Richmond Beetham, moving with him to Queenstown in the 1870s. She died in 1910, aged 68.Artwork
Beetham took after her artist father and was a talented illustrator, producing several botanical and bird studies. Some of her works are now held in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.
