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Lady Butler Napoleonic Art


Military Prints Lady Elizabeth Butler Napoleonic Art

[UP] - Napoleonic Art - Crimean War - Antique Prints

Napoleonic military art prints from regimental paintings by Lady Butler, Victorian military artist. Battle scenes from The Battle of waterloo, and Quatre Bras as well as the Peninsula Campaign

BUTLER, Lady Elizabeth Born Lausanne, Switzerland 1846; died Gormanston, Co.Meath 1933.

Elizabeth Thompson, later Lady Butler, was perhaps the leading painter of this genre of the late nineteenth century. Her famous quartet of paintings exhibited between 1874 and 1877 (Calling the Roll after and Engagement in the Crimea - Her Majesty the Queen; Quatre Bras - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Balaclava - City of Manchester Art Gallery; and The Return from Inkerman - Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull) established her reputation but her subsequent works never quite achieved the fame of these earlier pictures, in spite of such dramatic scenes as Scotland for Ever! (Leeds City Art Gallery) and The Defence of Rorke's Drift (Her Majesty the Queen). She continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1920 but with few exceptions, all her pictures had military themes particularly soldiers in battle. While she never witnessed actual warfare, although she was in Egypt for some years in the 1880's with her husband, Lieut. Gen. Sir William Butler, many of her pictures were drawn accurately using models in some cases, or observing soldiers on maneuvers or practicing charges at Aldershot. For instance, when Queen Victoria commissioned the artist to depict the defense of Rorke's Drift, Elizabeth Butler went down to Gosport where the 24th Regiment was billeted upon its return from Natal, and made sketches from life. The soldiers even re-enacted the battle in their original uniforms worn throughout the campaign.

THE LADY ELIZABETH BUTLER COLLECTION OF MILITARY PRINTS

Charge of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons at Waterloo by Lady Elizabeth Butler.


Charge of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons at Waterloo by Lady Elizabeth Butler.
3 editions.
£17.00 - £30.00

Quatre Bras by Lady Elizabeth Butler.


Quatre Bras by Lady Elizabeth Butler.
6 of 7 editions available.
£20.00 - £800.00

Halt by Lady Elizabeth Butler.


Halt by Lady Elizabeth Butler.
3 editions.
£27.00 - £950.00


The Dawn of Waterloo by Lady Elizabeth Butler.


The Dawn of Waterloo by Lady Elizabeth Butler.
5 editions.
£20.00 - £38.00

Halt on a Forced March by Lady Elizabeth Butler.


Halt on a Forced March by Lady Elizabeth Butler.
2 editions.
£20.00 - £34.00

Scotland Forever detail by Lady Elizabeth Butler.


Scotland Forever detail by Lady Elizabeth Butler.
2 editions.
£16.00 - £20.00


Scotland Forever by Lady Elizabeth Butler.


Scotland Forever by Lady Elizabeth Butler.
6 editions.
£20.00 - £700.00

Steady the Drums and Fifes by Lady Elizabeth Butler.


Steady the Drums and Fifes by Lady Elizabeth Butler.
3 of 4 editions available.
£24.00 - £40.00



Text for the above items :

Charge of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons at Waterloo by Lady Elizabeth Butler.

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Quatre Bras by Lady Elizabeth Butler.

28th Gloucester Regiment shown in square repelling the French cavalry.


Halt by Lady Elizabeth Butler.

Depicting the end of the last charge of the 10th Hussars at Waterloo.


The Dawn of Waterloo by Lady Elizabeth Butler.

Depicting troopers of the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons (Scots Greys) on the morning of 18th June 1815. before the Battle of waterloo, and their great charge into history.


Halt on a Forced March by Lady Elizabeth Butler.

The painting shows a gun team of the Royal Horse Artillery with wounded soldiers on the Limber during the retreat to Corunna in the winter of 1808-1809, during the Peninsula War.


Scotland Forever detail by Lady Elizabeth Butler.

Centre detail from the painting Scotland Forever showing the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo.


Scotland Forever by Lady Elizabeth Butler.

Probably the best known painting of the gallant charge of the Royal North Dragoons, The Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo. According to an eyewitness, Alexander Armour, at the start of the charge of the Greys had to pass through the ranks of the Highland Brigade and armour recalled : The highlanders were then ordered to wheel back, when they did so we rushed through them at the same time they heard us calling 'Now my boys, Scotland Forever'.


Steady the Drums and Fifes by Lady Elizabeth Butler.

The drummer boys of the 57th (die-hards) drawn up under fire on the ridge of Albuera, (16th May 1811), Peninsula war.

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