Elizabeth Thompson

Elizabeth Thompson

Calling the Roll After An Engagement, Crimea (or The Roll Call), 1874
The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras, 1875
The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1880

Scotland Forever!, 1881

Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933) was a British painter, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition. She was married to Lieutenant General Sir William Butler.

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    “Fold up the banners! Smelt the guns!
    Love rules, Her gentler purpose runs.
    A mighty mother turns in tears
    The pages of her battle years,
    Lamenting all her fallen sons!”
    —Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)