
Catalogue
- Year
- 1920
- Artist
- Elizabeth Butler
Artist

Elizabeth Butler
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."
Full artist profile →More
More by Elizabeth Butler

Steady the drums and fifes!
1905 · oil paint
WW-1905-544220

Yeomanry Scouts on the Veldt
1903 · oil paint
WW-1903-544223

Floreat Etona!
1882 · oil paint
WW-1882-544216

Scotland Forever!
1881 · oil paint
WW-1881-544213

The Defence of Rorke's Drift
1880 · oil paint
WW-1880-544222

Remnants of an Army
1879 · oil paint
WW-1879-205620
Record
Verified by Watts Index- Artist
- Elizabeth Butler
- Year
- 1920
- Watts ID
- WW-1920-544219
Source
- Source
- wikidata
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified