Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
JEFFREYS, Ellen Penelope née Valpy 1927–1904
JEFFREYS, Ellen Penelope née Valpy 1927–1904
Born Reading, England, eldest daughter of W. H. Valpy, former judge of the East India Company in Bengal. Arrived with her family in Dunedin on the Ajax early in 1849; 1851 married her cousin Henry Jeffreys. Her watercolours of Dunedin 1850 are in Hocken and OESA.