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Butler, Lady (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) (1846-1933)

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Name
Butler, Lady (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) (1846-1933)
Nationality
English
Biography
(1846-1933)<br> Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler was encouraged to pursue a career as an artist by her parents. She studied at the South Kensington School of Art for two years and attended classes in Florence and Rome in the vacations. She had a flair for lightning sketches of men and horses and was soon working these up into full paintings. She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1873 with her painting ‘Missing’. She became famous overnight the following year when a Manchester businessman commissioned her to paint a large picture of a Crimean roll-call. The picture was entitled ‘Calling the Roll after an Engagement’ but she is probably best known for her magnificent ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’.
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Assets (109 in total)

Scotland For Ever!, 1881 (oil on canvas)
The Colours: advance of the Scots Guards at the Alma, 1899 (oil on canvas)
Quatre-Bras 1815, 1875 (oil on canvas)
'Listed for the Connaught Rangers': Recruiting in Ireland, 1878 (oil on canvas)
Balaclava, 1876 (oil on canvas)
The Roll Call, 1874 (oil on canvas)
The Return from Inkerman in 1854, 1877 (oil on canvas)
Floreat Etona!, 1882 (oil on canvas)
The Retreat from Mons, 1927 (oil on canvas)
On the Morrow of Talavera, 1923 (oil on canvas)
Study of a Wounded Guardsman, Crimea, c.1874 (oil on board)
A 'Lament' in the Desert, 1925 (oil on canvas)
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