Alice Brusewitz

{{Short description|New Zealand photographer}}

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Alice Brusewitz (née Palmer 1858-1927) was a New Zealand commercial photographer.{{Cite web|url=http://canterburyphotography.blogspot.com/2010/06/brusewitz.html|title=Early New Zealand Photographers: BRUSEWITZ, Henry Elis Leopold|last=Photography|first=Early Canterbury|website=Early New Zealand Photographers|access-date=2019-03-02}}{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers?title=NZMAIL&start_date=14-01-1903&end_date=14-01-1903&query=Alice+Brusewitz|title=CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES—PARKER v. FISHER. Alice Brusewitz, Photos.|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-03-02}}{{Cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Lissa |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/on1374563763 |title=Through shaded glass: women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860-1960 |date=2023 |publisher=Te Papa Press |isbn=978-0-9951384-9-0 |location=Wellington, New Zealand |pages=281–282 |oclc=on1374563763}}

Born in Nelson, in around 1887 Brusewitz married photographer Henry Elis Leopold Brusewitz, who had been born in Sweden and migrated to New Zealand. The couple lived in Nelson and ran a photographic business there from about 1893.{{Cite web|url=https://natlib.govt.nz/items/22372328|title=Brusewitz, Henry Elis Leopold, 1855-1922|date=1855-01-01|website=natlib.govt.nz|language=en-NZ|access-date=2019-03-02}} They also both exhibited photographs, for example for the opening of the Suter Art Gallery in 1899.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18990608.2.50?query=Alice%20Brusewitz&phrase=2&snippet=true|title=Opening of the Suter Memorial Art Gallery|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-03-02}}

She joined the Nelson Camera Club in the mid 1890s and regularly showed in their exhibitions from 1899.

In 1911 Brusewitz moved to Perth, while her husband remained in Nelson where he died 1922. She returned to Nelson in 1919.