Lady Elizabeth Butler
Born Elizabeth Thompson, the artist inherited a love for drawing from her mother and attended the South Kensington schools in her youth, later travelling to Florence and Rome to continue her studies. In the 1870s she became a member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Water Colour Society of Ireland. In 1877 she married Irishman Major William Francis Butler. She exhibited at the RHA and RA. The sister of poet Alice Meynell, Lady Butler is best known in Ireland for her large history paintings such as 'Evicted', which is now in the UCD collection. In 1898 The Art Annual produced a special issue devoted to her, lavishly illustrated with photographs of her at work in her studio in Dover Castle, and with accompanying text written by her brother-in-law Wilfred Meynell. The artist died in Co. Meath in 1933.
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'CONNEMARA COAST'
- Price Realised: 2,300
- Sale: 15 March 2010
- watercolour
- 32 by 50cm., 12.5 by 19.5in.
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'ROUNDSTONE, COUNTY GALWAY'
- Price Realised: 1,600
- Sale: 15 March 2010
- watercolour over pencil
- 23 by 29cm., 9 by 11.5in.
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'EMBARKATION OF THE 17TH LANCERS FOR ZULULAND - BLINDFOLDING THE HORSES'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 09 July 2018
- pencil
- 8 x 11Ύin. (20.32 x 29.85cm)