Lucelle Frances Beetham (née Swainson; 24 March 1842 – 11 October 1910) was a New Zealand artist and natural history illustrator.
[1] Lucelle Frances Swainson was born on 24 March 1842, the second daughter of the naturalist William Swainson and Anne Grasby.
[2] She grew up in the Hutt Valley; on 17 September 1863 she married magistrate and artist Richmond Beetham, moving with him to Queenstown in the 1870s.
[1] Beetham took after her artist father and was a talented illustrator,[4] producing several botanical and bird studies.
Some of her works are now held in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.