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 ...

Monumental and momentous, this exhibition does away with any lingering notion that there have been ‘no great women artists’, offering as evidence more than 100 names and 200 works.

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 ...

Among the paintings on show will be Lady (Elizabeth) Butler's 1879 oil painting The Remnants of an Army, showing on horseback the man who was thought to be the only survivor of the 1842 retreat ...