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1858 Thomastown, Kilkenny County, Ireland - 1941 Thomastown, Kilkenny County, Ireland. Known for: Rural scene watercolor and oil landscape painting.
Mildred Anne Butler RWS (1858-1941). The Irish landscape painter Mildred Anne Butler was born and spent most of her life in the family home, Kilmurry in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. Butler's work... Read full biography
Mildred Anne Butler RWS (1858-1941). The Irish landscape painter Mildred Anne Butler was born and spent most of her life in the family home, Kilmurry in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. Butler's work often depicts the birds and animals native to the gardens and country landscapes around her Kilmurry... Read full biography
Mildred Anne Butler RWS (1858-1941). The Irish landscape painter Mildred Anne Butler was born and spent most of her life in the family home, Kilmurry in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. Butler's work often depicts the birds and animals native to the gardens and country landscapes around her Kilmurry home. As it happened, she outlived all her five brothers and sisters and inherited the family house. In the early 1880s, she traveled to Brussels and Paris where she studied drawing, and fine art... Read full biography
Mildred Anne Butler RWS (1858-1941). The Irish landscape painter Mildred Anne Butler was born and spent most of her life in the family home, Kilmurry in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. Butler's work often depicts the birds and animals native to the gardens and country landscapes around her Kilmurry home. As it happened, she outlived all her five brothers and sisters and inherited the family house. In the early 1880s, she traveled to Brussels and Paris where she studied drawing, and fine art painting alongside contemporaries such as Walter Osborne and John Lavery, and spent some time in London working under Paul Jacob Naftel, whom she later claimed had given her a profound understanding of the art of watercolour painting. Her French training... Read full biography
Mildred Anne Butler RWS (1858-1941). The Irish landscape painter Mildred Anne Butler was born and spent most of her life in the family home, Kilmurry in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. Butler's work often depicts the birds and animals native to the gardens and country landscapes around her Kilmurry home. As it happened, she outlived all her five brothers and sisters and inherited the family house. In the early 1880s, she traveled to Brussels and Paris where she studied drawing, and fine art painting alongside contemporaries such as Walter Osborne and John Lavery, and spent some time in London working under Paul Jacob Naftel, whom she later claimed had given her a profound understanding of the art of watercolour painting. Her French training was considered highly unconventional in British art circles; London's Royal Academy refused to exhibit artists who pain... Read full biography
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Mildred Anne Butler RWS (1858-1941)
The Irish landscape painter Mildred Anne Butler was born and spent most of her life in the family home, Kilmurry in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. Butler's work often depicts the birds and animals native to the gardens and country landscapes around her Kilmurry home. As it happened, she outlived all her five brothers and sisters and inherited the family house.
In the early 1880s, she traveled to Brussels and Paris where she studied drawing, and fine art painting alongside contemporaries such as Walter Osborne and John Lavery, and spent some time in London working under Paul Jacob Naftel, whom she later claimed had given her a profound understanding of the art of watercolour painting.&nbs...But wait, there's more...
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