Eversen lived and worked in Amsterdam, exhibiting there between 1840 and 1885. He was a member of the elite association of artists known as the Arti et Amicitiae. His very sensitive and detailed paintings not only excelled in the representation of the beautiful architecture of that time, but also record his poetic response to the atmosphere of everyday life in Dutch towns.

From the 1860s his town views were regularly exhibited in Bremen, Dresden, Berlin and Vienna. He was highly regarded in his lifetime, selling many works in Belgium, Holland and the United Kingdom. A collection of Eversen’s paintings at the Victoria & Albert Museum was donated by the English collector John Sheepshanks.

Many of his paintings can be seen today in museums including the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, in Stettin in Germany and Courtrai in Belgium.