Jessie Lavington (or Laver) Evans (1860–1943) was an Australian artist who specialised in plein air impressionist painting.
Jessie Lavington Evans was born in Albury, New South Wales on 25 March 1860 and died in Brighton, Victoria on 12 May 1943.
[2] Jessie Lavington Evans attended the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in 1880 and her fellow students that year included Tom Roberts, E Phillips Fox, Frederick McCubbin, Charles Douglas Richardson and Jane Sutherland while Julian Ashton and Rupert Bunny joined in 1881 and Arthur Streeton attended in 1882.
Between 1894 and 1898, she also studied at the Melbourne School of Art under E. Phillips Fox and Tudor St George Tucker, being awarded (1894 and 1897) Prizes for Landscape.
The mother of artist Sybil Craig, who was an art collector, acquired a large collection of Jessie's works after her death in the 1940s and these works passed to her daughter and were sold by the latter's estate in 1992 at Capricorn Galleries, Fitzroy in a survey exhibition, Australian women artists that also included remnants of the estate of Clara Southern.