Beatrice Elvery

Beatrice Moss Elvery, RHA (1883, Dublin – 1970, Rockall, Sandycove) was an Irish painter, stained-glass artist and sculptor.

Her only fault was that the transmission of her thoughts from her brain to paper or canvas, clay or stained glass became so easy to her that all was said in a few hours.

As a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School, Elvery won numerous prizes, including the Taylor Scholarship in 1901, 1902 and 1903.

'[4] When Sarah Purser founded her studio An Túr Gloine (The Tower of Glass) in 1903, she invited Beatrice Elvery to be one of the designers.

Their circle included W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, Middleton Murry, and Katherine Mansfield.

[6] Her portrait of Mansfield in Elvery's garden is in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

By the end of the process, she was directing the burning-party to remove first edition books, original paintings, furniture, and, because it was Christmas eve, her children's presents.