Elizabeth Thompson. Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler was a British painter, and specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Battle of Waterloo.
The Roll Call, The Defence of Rorke's Drift, and Scotland Forever!, showing the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo, are among her notable works. She wrote about her military paintings in an autobiography published in 1922: I never painted for the glory of war, but to portray its pathos and heroism.
She married Lieutenant General Sir William Butler, becoming Lady Butler. Born at Villa Claremont in Lausanne, Switzerland, Butler was the daughter of Thomas James Thompson and his second wife Christiana Weller.
Her sister was the noted essayist and poet Alice Meynell. Elizabeth began receiving art instruction in 1862, while growing up in Italy.
In 1866 she went to South Kensington, London, and entered the Royal Female School of Art. She became a Roman Catholic along with the rest of the family after they moved to Florence in 1869. While in Florence, under the tutelage of the artist Giuseppe Bellucci, Elizabeth attended the Accademia di Belle Arti. She signed her works as E.B.; Elizth. Thompson or Mimi Thompson. Initially Butler concentrated on religious subjects like The Magnificat, but upon going to Paris in 1870 she was exposed to battle scenes from Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier and
The Roll Call, The Defence of Rorke's Drift, and Scotland Forever!, showing the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo, are among her notable works. She wrote about her military paintings in an autobiography published in 1922: I never painted for the glory of war, but to portray its pathos and heroism.
She married Lieutenant General Sir William Butler, becoming Lady Butler. Born at Villa Claremont in Lausanne, Switzerland, Butler was the daughter of Thomas James Thompson and his second wife Christiana Weller.
Her sister was the noted essayist and poet Alice Meynell. Elizabeth began receiving art instruction in 1862, while growing up in Italy.
In 1866 she went to South Kensington, London, and entered the Royal Female School of Art. She became a Roman Catholic along with the rest of the family after they moved to Florence in 1869. While in Florence, under the tutelage of the artist Giuseppe Bellucci, Elizabeth attended the Accademia di Belle Arti. She signed her works as E.B.; Elizth. Thompson or Mimi Thompson. Initially Butler concentrated on religious subjects like The Magnificat, but upon going to Paris in 1870 she was exposed to battle scenes from Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier and
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