
Catalogue
- Year
- 1881
- Medium
- oil paint
- Artist
- Elizabeth Butler
Artist

Painting
Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, later known as Lady Butler, was a British painter who specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Napoleonic Wars. Her notable works include The Roll Call, The Defence of Rorke's Drift, and Scotland Forever!. 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."
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- Elizabeth Butler
- Year
- 1881
- Medium
- oil paint
- Watts ID
- WW-1881-544213
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