They lived right next to his grandfather, President Paul Kruger of the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek on church street in Pretoria.

Eloff along with other influential South African Artists like Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, Gerard Moerdijk and Gordon Leith attended the Staats Model School in Pretoria until the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902).

The Eloff family followed Paul Kruger into exile in Switzerland after the fall of Pretoria on 3 September 1900.

[2] In 1912 he took part in the 130 De Salon, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées and created his work titled the Boxer.

The Spirit of Sport at the Pilditch Stadium, His parents' gravestone in the Pretoria West Cemetery[8] The grave stone of Koos de la Rey in Lichtenburg (Stolen from the cemetery in April 2021) and the bronze pots in the forecourt of the Union Buildings.