And yet it was a pupil of the fledgling female school of design who would become the most celebrated war artist of her time. Lady Butler was born, simply, Elizabeth Thompson in 1846 to a wealthy ...

Mark Cashmore and Peter Duckers, right, hang the painting. The oil painting by Lady Elizabeth Butler was displayed for many years in the Officers’ Mess of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry at ...

The painting is Elizabeth Thompson Butler’s Listed for ... more than ever is the time to recover her life and her vision. Lady Butler: War artist and traveller, 1846-1933 by Catherine Wynne ...