Elizabeth Orme Vassilieff, née Sutton (27 September 1915 – 2007) was an Australian artist, writer and peace activist.
On 20 March 1947 Hamill married the Russian-born artist Danila Vassilieff, from whom she had bought Stonygrad, the house he had built of stone and logs, and whom she had met only on 5 February.
[1] Her critique of Melbourne University Magazine led the poet Vincent Buckley, whose poem 'In Time of Martydom' Vassilieff had used as an example, to complain that she was turning the journal Communist.
[6] Vassilieff exhibited paintings alongside her husband, and their house in Victoria was a focus for left-wing artists and painters such as Nettie and Vance Palmer.
[1] Though the pair separated in 1954, Elizabeth continued to try to control his reputation after his death in 1958, claiming copyright ownership and initiating defamation suits against publishers.