The British painter Lady Butler was born as Elizabeth Southerden Thompson in Switzerland. However, she spent most of her childhood in Italy, where she probably began her artistic education at the age of 16. About four years later the family moved to London, where she studied at the Female School of Art. There she met the critic John Ruskin and the painter Sir John Everett Millais, among others. Ruskin was an admirer of her work. Butler had forced him to admit that women could also paint. After three years Lady Butler returned to Italy with her family and they settled in Florence. She was accepted at the Accademia de Belle Arti and worked under the guidance of the Italian artist Guiseppe Bellucci.
Butler painted mainly religious motifs at the beginning of her career. This changed in the 1970s when she moved to Paris. She got to know the works of the military artists of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier and Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille. Although she herself had no connection to the military at that time, her fascination with this subject began. She felt that this genre was underrepresented in her home country Great Britain. From then on she painted almost exclusively military scenes. But unlike other artists, Butler did not concentrate on the depiction of battle scenes or the heroics of individual officers. Her works were more about the simple soldiers, their courage but also their exhaustion and despair. Often the men could be seen either just before the beginning or at the end of a battle. Butler avoided direct battle scenes in her paintings for the most part, as well as the depiction of enemy soldiers. This hit the nerve of the time and was entirely in keeping with the taste of the burgeoning patriotism in the British Empire. The enthusiasm for her paintings was partly due to her talent and the new way she portrayed them. But the fact that she was a young and attractive woman also played an important role. For she did not at all correspond to the typical image of a military painter of that time.
Some of her most famous works "Missing" or "The Roll Call" were exhibited at the Royal Academy. However, she was not accepted as the first female associate member of the Royal Academy, apart from the two co-founders Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffmann. At the age of 31 she married the distinguished Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Butler and was given the name Lady Butler, Elizabeth Southerden. She accompanied her husband to Egypt and Palestine, where she continued to paint and write a book. The couple had six children. When her husband retired from military service, the family moved to Ireland. Lady Butler continued to paint military scenes until the end of her life, although, influenced by her husband, she began to doubt the ideology of the colonial empire.
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.jpg "Studies of Eight Soldiers Inscribed")
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.jpg "Study of Landscape with Trees and Ruined Arches by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Studies of \"a London Cab Driver\", \"a Cittadine Driver - Genoa\", and \"a Genoese Cittadine Stand\", Dated \"June 26/61\" by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Three Soldiers Playing Cards, Two")
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.jpg "Study of Artists Materials, Butterfly, Flowers, Flags, Cliff Face and Garland in Coat of Arms Formation Around Inscription \"Ended August 12th 1861\" by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of two horses in landscape inscribed")
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.jpg "Two Studies of Rocky Island, Study of Boat, Dated \"June 30\" by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Four Battalion Scenes Inscribed")
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.jpg "Eight Studies of Soldiers, Including Soldiers at an Outdoor Café by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Studies of Children, a Sailor, Six Studies of Boats by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Multi-Figure Reception Scene with Banners and Flags by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Six Studies of Soldiers, One on Horseback Inscribed \"the Blues\", Small Study of Horse from the Front by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of Soldiers on Horses Inscribed")
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.jpg "Study of \"the Guards\", Two Studies of Soldiers on Horseback, Three Studies of French, English and Piedmontese Policemen by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of a \"Genoese Villa\", a Man with a Pipe, a Packhorse, a Landscaped Archway with Figures by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Four Studies of Male Busts, Two of a Woman with Parasol, Study of Group of Men and Woman on Horseback, Study of Group of Soldiers by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Five studies of a church, soldiers in full dress on horseback, a soldier on guard and a study of woman riding side-saddle by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Horses Pulling a Carriage Through an Arch by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Patient Heroes, a Royal Horse Artillery Gun Team in action, 1882 circa by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "The Retreat from Mons, 1927 by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Water fountain in foliage, study of three joined packhorses, study of two soldiers on horseback inscribed")
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.jpg "Three figures in a rowing boat inscribed")
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.jpg "Three Studies of Countryside Scenes by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Twelve Studies Showing Woman Riding Side-Saddle, Soldiers in Conversation, Ships, Bugler on Horse by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Soldier in full uniform, studies of a youth with fishing rod on horseback, four men on horseback inscribed")
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.jpg "Twelve Pen Studies Inscribed")
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.jpg "Scotland for Ever! by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "A garden and laundry scene with female figures inscribed")
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.jpg "Eight Studies of Standing Soldiers in Uniform by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of a Café Scene with Soldiers Reading Newspapers Inscribed")
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.jpg "Study of the Battle of Waterloo, a preliminary sketch for the oil painting")
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.jpg "Study of Men and Women on Horseback in a Park, Possibly a Hunt, a Study of a Soldier in Full Dress Uniform on Horseback with a Flag by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Three Studies of Soldiers on Horseback Inscribed \"Garibaldian Cavalry\" by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Two Soldiers on Horseback, Studies of Artillery and Infantry Soldiers by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of a Ship Blowing on Water, Study of Eight Soldiers and Five Horses, Study of a Horse and Carriage with a Female Rider by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Three Studies of Cavalry Battles by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of a Monastic Procession in a Coastal Landscape by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Studies of Male Figures with Horses, Study of Soldier Smoking and with Sword, Study of Three Fruit Sellers with Stall by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "A town scene with soldiers drinking, study of a market stall, study of a Piedmontese national guard, study of four soldiers and crossed flags by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of a Wounded Guardsman, Crimea, c.1874 by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Two Soldiers Firing Downwards Over Sandbags, 1879 by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "British Soldier, Camel Corps, Egypt, 1st Sudan War, circa 1885 by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Four Figures Next to Wooden Cross, Study of Two Youths with Sticks on Donkeys, Study of Two Monks, One Kneeling Before Wooden Cross by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of eight soldiers standing in an interior, study of three Sardinian soldiers by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "The Colours: Advance of the Scots Guards at the Alma, 1899 by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "\"English Peasant\", \"a Genoese Peasant\", Study of Figures in Taverns Inscribed \"Battista\" and \"Bile\", Place and Date \"June 20\" by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of two women and a man riding in hilly landscape, study of soldiers on horseback, study of three guardsmen in conversation by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Three studies of rocky islands, a watery landscape with people and boats, and palm trees by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Three studies of men and women by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Four Studies of Soldiers, Women Riding and Battles by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of Soldiers on Horses Pulling Cannon, Two Views of Artillery Men, a Soldier in Full Dress on Galloping Horse by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Searching carriages at the city gate and three studies inscribed")
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.jpg "Officer in Full Dress with Top Hat and Epaulettes by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Two pen studies of pairs of soldiers in conversation, one pencil study of two young men in conversation by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Ten Studies of Soldiers, Horses, Woman Riding Side-Saddle by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "A palm grove at San Remo, a horse-drawn carriage in front of")
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.jpg "Three Studies of Ships, Boats and Coastal Landscape by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Scotland for Ever, illustration from")
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.jpg "Seven Studies of Cavalry Battles, Soldiers and a Woman Riding by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "A Despatch-Bearer Egyptian Camel Corps by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Changing Horses by Night, Going Down to Lagoletto, Ascending the Turbia and Passing Through a Hamlet by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of Twenty-One Soldiers by Lady Butler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-301226).jpg "The Morning After the Battle of Talavera (1809) by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of a Table Leg, Architectural Study, Tour de la Glacine - Avignon - France by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Three Studies of Horses Galloping Freely by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of three high ranking soldiers by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "The Reception of the Prince of Wales at Cairo by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "To the Front: French Cavalry Leaving a Breton City on the Declaration of War by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Studies of a Horse and Man by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of Soldiers and Horses by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Three Studies of Soldiers by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Registering Fellaheen for Military Service by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Studies of a Horse Drawn Carriage with Rider by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Study of a Seated Man with Tankard and Pipe by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "On the Parade, a Windy Day, Boats with Day-Trippers, Riders on Horses Inscribed")
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.jpg "Four Studies of Soldiers on Horseback by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Quatre-Bras 1815, Engraved by F. Stacpoole, 1875 by Lady Butler")
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.jpg "Jenkins Kneeling to Fire by Lady Butler")
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