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Military Prints Lady Elizabeth Butler Antique Prints

[UP] - Napoleonic Art - Crimean War - Antique Prints

Lady Elizabeth Thompson also known as Lady Butler. Antique photogravures published by the Fine Art Society during the 1890's including Remnants of an Army, Roll Call, Return from Inkerman and Quatrebras. These photogravures by Lady Butler are available from Cranston Fine Arts, the military print company.

BUTLER, Lady Elizabeth Born Lausanne, Switzerland 1846; died Gormanston, Co.Meath 1933.

Elizabeth Thompson, later Lady Butler, was perhaps the leading painter of this genre of the late nineteenth century. Her famous quartet of paintings exhibited between 1874 and 1877 (Calling the Roll after and Engagement in the Crimea - Her Majesty the Queen; Quatre Bras - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Balaclava - City of Manchester Art Gallery; and The Return from Inkerman - Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull) established her reputation but her subsequent works never quite achieved the fame of these earlier pictures, in spite of such dramatic scenes as Scotland for Ever! (Leeds City Art Gallery) and The Defence of Rorke's Drift (Her Majesty the Queen). She continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1920 but with few exceptions, all her pictures had military themes particularly soldiers in battle. While she never witnessed actual warfare, although she was in Egypt for some years in the 1880's with her husband, Lieut. Gen. Sir William Butler, many of her pictures were drawn accurately using models in some cases, or observing soldiers on maneuvers or practicing charges at Aldershot. For instance, when Queen Victoria commissioned the artist to depict the defense of Rorke's Drift, Elizabeth Butler went down to Gosport where the 24th Regiment was billeted upon its return from Natal, and made sketches from life. The soldiers even re-enacted the battle in their original uniforms worn throughout the campaign.

Remnants of an Army by Lady Elizabeth Butler (P)

Remnants of an Army by Lady Elizabeth Butler (P)
One edition.
£900.00

The Roll Call by Lady Elizabeth Butler (P)

The Roll Call by Lady Elizabeth Butler (P)
One edition.
£900.00

Quatre Bras by Lady Elizabeth Butler. (P)

Quatre Bras by Lady Elizabeth Butler. (P)
One edition.
£800.00



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Remnants of an Army by Lady Elizabeth Butler (P)

Depicts Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the Bengal Army arriving at the gates of Jellabad on his exhausted and dying horse. He was thought to be the sole survivor of some 16,000 strong army and followers from Kabul, which was forced to retreat the 90 miles over snow covered passes to Jellabad during the first Aghan war. A few others eventually struggled through to the fort.


The Roll Call by Lady Elizabeth Butler (P)

Grenadier Guards exhausted, standing in the snow after the battle, during the Crimean war awaiting the reading of the Roll Call.


Quatre Bras by Lady Elizabeth Butler. (P)

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