Elizabeth Georgiana Jeffreys (16 January 1853 – 18 July 1885) was a New Zealand artist.

Biography Jeffreys was born in Dunedin on 16 January 1853, the daughter of Reverend Charles Jeffreys and Frances Hagell. Her sister, Frances McGoun (née Jeffreys) was also an artist, and her uncle, Julius Jeffreys, was a noted surgeon and medical pioneer.

Several of Jeffreys' drawings and watercolours of New Zealand landscapes are now in the Hocken collections at the University of Otago. Several are dated from 1865 to 1867 when Jeffreys was a teenager.

Jeffreys died on 18 July 1885 in Brightwater, Nelson, aged 32."New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843–1998", Nelson Court > Probate records 1851–1893 P506, P508, P523, P495-P530 > image 225 of 360; Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office.

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