Mildred Anne Butler

{{Short description|Irish artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox artist | name = Mildred Anne Butler | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Mildred Anne Butler | birth_date = {{birth date text|11 January 1858}} | birth_place = Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland | death_date = {{death date text|11 October 1941}} | death_place = Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland | field = Painting, Watercolours and oils | training = {{unbulleted list |Paul Jacob Naftel |William Frank Calderon |Norman Garstin}} | movement = Newlyn School | works ={{unbulleted list |''A Sheltered Corner (1891)'' R.A. |''A High Court of Justice (1892)'' R.A. |''Green-Eyed Jealousy (1894)'' R.A. |''The Morning Bath (1896)'' R.A. |''Beside the Pond (1896)'' R.W.S. Election 1896 |''Dull December (1896)'' R.W.S. Election 1896 |''Loiterers (1896)'' R.W.S. Election 1896 |''Raiders from the Rookery (1896)'' R.A. |''Sunshine Holiday (1898)'' R.W.S. |''Cead Mile Failte (1898)'' R.A. }} | patrons = Queen Mary of Teck, Grand Duke of Hesse | influenced = | awards = | website = }}  '''Mildred Anne Butler''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=RA RWS}} (11 January 1858 – 11 October 1941) was an Irish artist, who worked in watercolour and oil of landscape, genre and animal subjects. Butler was born and spent most of her life in Kilmurry, Thomastown, County Kilkenny and was associated with the Newlyn School of painters.

Mildred Anne's en plein air style is dominated by the theme of nature and reflects scenes of domesticity around the family home in Kilmurry. She achieved distinction in her lifetime and exhibited in major galleries in Ireland and England. Among her patrons were Queen Mary of Teck and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.

She became a member of the Royal Academy in 1893. In 1896, Butler's ''Morning Bath'' was exhibited at the Royal Academy.{{Ref label|A|a|none}} It was the second work by a female artist to be purchased by the trustees of the Chantrey Bequest and was then presented to the Tate.{{Ref label|B|b|none}} She became an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1896 and was granted full membership in 1937.

She was one of the first academicians elected by the Ulster Academy of Arts in 1930. She virtually stopped painting by the 1930s due to arthritis and died in 1941, aged 83. Around four hundred pieces of her work were sold as part of the artist's studio sale in 1980. She is celebrated in a postage stamp by An Post.

== Life == Mildred Anne was born in 1858 in Kilmurry, a Georgian House near Thomastown and was the youngest daughter of Captain Henry Butler, a grandson of the Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry Christies" /> Knowledge of Butler's life and working methods are almost entirely on the watercolours themselves and on her diaries, which are preserved for most years between 1892 and 1938.<ref name="Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry Christies" /> Butler's quirky titles such as ''Ancient Rubbish'', ''A Tit-Bit'' and ''Chucked; Green Eyed Jealousy: Ravens amongst trees'' show the artist's playful sensibility.<ref name="Kilkenny400 2009" /><ref name="The Delegates 1923 Christies" /> Her father, Henry Butler, was an amateur artist favouring subjects from nature he encountered on journeys abroad, in particular exotic plants and animals.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" /> Butler spent most of her life in the family home at Kilmurry with frequent trips to England and the continent.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" /> She continued painting until the 1930s when she stopped painting due to arthritis and died in 1941, aged 83.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" />

== Career ==

Butler's father Henry may have encouraged her to paint in her youth but her artistic training began in London in the late 1880s with the watercolourist Paul Jacob Naftel, whom she credited for her understanding of watercolours.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" /> Butler like her friend Rose Barton, who also studied under Naftel, did not follow his choice of landscape, instead she devoted herself to cattle, birds, and flower gardens.<ref name="Huish1904" /> She continued her studies at Westminster School of Art under William Frank Calderon<ref name="Butler hughlane" /> who specialised in animal painting and later opened a school of animal painting.<ref name="Butler Tate" /> At Frank Calderon's School she studied the subject of cows, and it was that work for which she was elected to the Old Society, the Royal Academy.<ref name="Huish1904">({{Harvnb|Huish|1904| p=94}})</ref>

In her late twentieths, Butler made annual visits to the continent until the outbreak of war. She travelled to France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy.<ref name="Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry Christies" /> In Paris, she studied drawing, figure drawing and fine art painting. While in Paris she became associated with the Newlyn school and went on to spend the summers of 1894 and 1895 in Newlyn in Cornwall.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" /> Newlyn at that time was the centre for a group of artists who were interested in plein-air subjects, many of whom had previously studied in France.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /> She was attached to the Newlyn School, and Norman Garstin's studio in particular alongside contemporaries such as Walter Osborne and Sir John Lavery.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" /><ref name="Huish1904"/> Garstin like Osborne had been a pupil of the Antwerp master Charles Verlat.<ref name="Butler Cork" /> Butler established a friendship with Luke Fildes, Stanhope Forbes whom she met at Newlyn.<ref name="The Flowers of August 1900 Christies" /> The influence of the Limerick-born Garstin, and Forbes, and the contact with the Newlyn School informed Butler's development and remained an important influence on her work throughout her life.<ref name="The Flowers of August 1900 Christies" />

Butler continuously exhibited throughout her career and proved herself to be a keen business woman capable of marketing her watercolours successfully with patrons such as Queen Mary of Teck and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Kilkenny400 2009" /> She was a member of the ''Society of Lady Artists''.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Butler, Mildred|magazine=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|page=265|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA265}}</ref> She was one of the first nine academicians elected by the ''Ulster Academy of Arts'' in 1930. She was granted full membership into the Royal Watercolour Society in 1937, having been an associate member since 1896.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" />

=== Style === thumb|right|Meditation (1889)

Butler was a painter in oil and watercolour of landscape, genre and animal subjects.<ref name="Morning Bath Tate" /> Her range of work was dominated by the theme of nature and her subject matter reflected the scenes of domesticity surrounding her Kilmurry home.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Meditation 1889 Adams" /> Butler's house was a huge source of inspiration throughout her life,<ref name="Kilkenny400 2009" /> its garden and surroundings, provided passion for many of her paintings which often included the surrounding gardens, pasture and countryside.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Kilkenny400 2009" /><ref name="Butler Cork" /><ref name="Meditation 1889 Adams" /><ref name="The Kilmurry Estate Christies" /> These themes interested her particularly remained a constant subject.<ref name="Kilkenny400 2009" /><ref name="Butler Cork" /> She also did genre views of villages and towns on the continent.<ref name="Butler hughlane" />

Butler painted en plein air with instils her work with animated freshness, which she depicts with a degree of realism and expression.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Kilkenny400 2009" /><ref name="Meditation 1889 Adams" /> Paintings such as ''Meditation (1889)'' were considered revolutionary by the art establishment and by critics of the day.<ref name="Meditation 1889 Adams" /> The critic of the magazine Hearth and Home described her habit of painting in the open air, rare at the time, and said it give an actuality and a freshness to the painting.<ref name="Meditation 1889 Adams" />

===Works and exhibitions===

Butler's principal works have been ''A Sheltered Corner (1891)'' R.A., ''A High Court of Justice (1892)'' R.A., ''Green-Eyed Jealousy (1894)'' R.A., ''The Morning Bath (1896)'' R.A., ''Raiders from the Rookery (1896)'' R.A., ''Cead Mile Failte (1898)'' R.A.<ref name="Huish1904"/> Works that she was elected to the R.W.S. in 1896 include ''Dull December'', ''Loiterers'' and ''Beside the Pond''.<ref name="Huish1904"/> ''Sunshine Holiday (1898)'' R.W.S. was another notable work.<ref name="Huish1904"/> Her works appears in a number of collections including ''Morning Bath'' in the Tate and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Ulster Museum in Belfast and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" /> A small watercolour of crows hangs in Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor.<ref name="Butler Cork" /> Throughout her career Butler's works were showcased as far abroad as the United States and Japan.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" />

She first exhibited at the Dudley Gallery in Piccadilly.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry Christies" /> She exhibited in various galleries and institutions including the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Watercolour Society of Ireland, the Belfast Ramblers' Sketching Club, the Royal Academy (1889–1902) and the Royal Watercolour Society.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="Butler Cork" /> In 1906 she exhibited at the Watercolour Society of Ireland, in Dublin, with works such as ''The Garden Cart'' and later that winter in London, at the Old Water-Colour Society where the exhibition included pieces such as ''Where the Grass Grows Green''.<ref name="The Garden Cart Christies" /><ref name="Where the Grass Grows Green 1904 sothebys" /> In Spring 1919 an exhibition at the Royal Watercolour Society, London, included ''Tramore Strand, Low water (1889)''<ref name="Tramore Strand, Low water 1889 sothebys" /> ''The Delegates (1923)'' was exhibited at the New Irish Salon.<ref name="The Delegates 1923 Christies" />

In 1980, watercolours, drawings and sketches, together with notes, letters and diaries were sold as part of the artist's studio sale.<ref name="A Dead Magpie in a Tree Adam" /><ref name="Winter Survival Christies" /> Some were sold in Ireland and others at a studio sale at Christie's in London.<ref name="A Dead Magpie in a Tree Adam" /><ref name="christies" /><ref name="Sothebys" /> The National Gallery of Ireland purchased seven fine watercolours for its permanent collection.<ref name="A Dead Magpie in a Tree Adam" /> Fota House in Cork contains one of her works.<ref name="Fota" /> An Exhibition of Butler's work was held by the Kilkenny Art Gallery Society at Kilkenny Castle in June 1981 which included pieces such as ''Where the Grass Grows Green (1904)''<ref name="Where the Grass Grows Green 1904 sothebys" /><ref name="Kilkenny 1981" /><ref name="Crookshank 1981">({{Harvnb|Crookshank|1992}})</ref> It was further exhibited at the Bank of Ireland, Baggot Street, Dublin in August 1981 and at Christies, King Street, London in September 1981.<ref name="Kilkenny 1981" /><ref name="Crookshank 1981"/> In 1987 Kilkenny Art Gallery, Kilkenny, presented an exhibition '' Mildred Anne Butler'', which included ''Cats Chasing Birds (1918)''.<ref name="Cats Chasing Birds 1918 Whytes" /> Between August–September 1987 the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, presented an exhibition ''Mildred Anne Butler 1858-1941. An Irish Edwardian Watercolour Collection'' which included ''Figures beside a horse and chaise (1896)''<ref name="Figures beside a horse and chaise 1896 Christies" /> In April to June 1988 Ulster Museum and Art Gallery, Belfast, presented an exhibition '' Mildred Anne Butler'' which included ''Cats Chasing Birds (1918)''.<ref name="Cats Chasing Birds 1918 Whytes" /><ref name="Figures beside a horse and chaise 1896 Christies" /> She is celebrated on a Postage stamp in an An Post collection for female Irish artists.<ref name="stamp" />

== Selected works == {{refbegin|25em}} {{plainlist| * ''A Sheltered Corner (1891)'' R.A.<ref name="Huish1904" /> * ''A High Court of Justice (1892)'' R.A.<ref name="Huish1904" /> * ''Green-Eyed Jealousy (1894)'' R.A.<ref name="Huish1904" /> * ''The Morning Bath (1896)'' R.A., Tate, London.<ref name="Huish1904" /><ref name="Morning Bath Tate" /> * ''Beside the Pond (1896)'' R.W.S. Election 1896<ref name="Huish1904" /> * ''Dull December (1896)'' R.W.S. Election 1896<ref name="Huish1904" /> * ''Loiterers (1896)'' R.W.S. Election 1896<ref name="Huish1904" /> * ''Raiders from the Rookery (1896)'' R.A.<ref name="Huish1904" /> * ''Sunshine Holiday (1898)'' R.W.S.<ref name="Huish1904" /> * ''Cead Mile Failte (1898)'' R.A.<ref name="Huish1904" /> * ''Toll from the Turnip Cart (1896)''<ref name="Turnip Cart 1896 whytes" /> * ''The Wanderers (1898)'', Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.<ref name="Butler hughlane" /><ref name="The Wanderers 1898 hughlane" /> * ''The Garden Cart''<ref name="The Garden Cart Christies" /> * ''Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry''<ref name="Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry Christies" /> * ''Tramore Strand, Low water 1889''<ref name="Tramore Strand, Low water 1889 sothebys" /> * ''Where the Grass Grows Green''<ref name="Where the Grass Grows Green 1904 sothebys" /> * ''The Delegates (1923)''<ref name="The Delegates 1923 Christies" /> * ''Dandelions and Scillas''<ref name="Dandelions and Scillas Christies" /> * ''The Garden Path (1922)''<ref name="The Garden Path 1922 Christies" /> * ''Procession through the bluebells''<ref name="Procession through the bluebells sothebys" /> * ''Madonna Lilies''<ref name="Other Websites" /><ref name="Other Sothebys" /> * ''Side-cars''<ref name="Side-cars Christies" /> * ''Foxgloves''<ref name="Foxgloves Christies" /> * ''Poppies (1904)''<ref name="Poppies 1904 Christies" /> * ''The Lily Pond (1897)''<ref name="The Lily Pond 1897 Christies" /> * ''In the Conservatory, Kilmurry''<ref name="In the Conservatory, Kilmurry" /><ref name="In the conservatory Christies" /> * ''View in Pembroke Street, Dublin''<ref name="View in Pembroke Street, Dublin sothebys" /> * ''A garden path, probably Kilmurry''<ref name="A garden path, probably Kilmurry Christies" /> * ''A summer's day''<ref name="a summer's day sothebys" /> * ''Hollyhocks''<ref name="Hollyhocks Christies" /> * ''Winter Survival''<ref name="Winter Survival Christies" /> * ''Low water, Tramore, Waterford (1919)''<ref name="Low water, Tramore, Waterford 1919 Christies" /> * ''Station cabbies (1898)''<ref name="Station cabbies 1898 Christies" /> * ''Poppies at Kilmurry: View across a wild Garden; and In flower''<ref name="Poppies at Kilmurry: View across a wild Garden; and In flower Christies" /> * ''Autumn by the Lake (1890)''<ref name="Autumn by the Lake 1890 Christies" /> * ''Figures beside a horse and chaise''<ref name="Figures beside a horse and chaise 1896 Christies" /> * ''Horses grazing (1998)''<ref name="horses grazing 1998 sothebys" /> * ''Cats Chasing Birds (1918)''<ref name="Cats Chasing Birds 1918 Whytes" /> * ''Peacocks''<ref name="Other Sothebys" /><ref name="Peacocks Christies" /><ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''The Spring Garden, Kilmurry''<ref name="mutualart" /><ref name="The Spring Garden, Kilmurry Christies" /> * ''Study of a Delphinium''<ref name="Study of a Delphinium Christies" /> * ''Sheep in a meadow''<ref name="Sheep in a meadow Christies" /> * ''The Grinding Wheel, Kilmurry''<ref name="The Grinding Wheel, Kilmurry Christies" /> * ''Cattle grazing, Kilmurry''<ref name="Cattle grazing, Kilmurry Christies" /> * ''Edge of the Woods''<ref name="edge of the woods sothebys" /> * ''Cattle in the shade, Kilmurray (1917)''<ref name="mutualart" /><ref name="Cattle in the shade, Kilmurray 1917" /> * ''Lismore, Waterford''<ref name="Lismore, Waterford Christies" /> * ''Two cats, Kilmurry''<ref name="Two cats, Kilmurry Christies" /> * ''The Kilmurry Estate''<ref name="The Kilmurry Estate Christies" /> * ''Meditation (1889)''<ref name="Meditation 1889 Adams" /> * ''Cattle Resting in a Summer Meadow (1899)''<ref name="mutualart" /> * ''A Dead Magpie in a Tree''<ref name="A Dead Magpie in a Tree Adam" /> * ''A Trout Stream''<ref name="mutualart" /><ref name="A Trout Stream Christies" /> * ''Procession through the Bluebells''<ref name="mutualart" /> * ''Crucifixion and hollyhocks''<ref name="mutualart" /> * ''Lilac Phlox''<ref name="Other Websites" /> * ''The Farmyard''<ref name="Other Websites" /> '''Other''' * An Post Postage stamp<ref name="stamp image" /> '''Other Works''' * ''"Chucked; Green Eyed Jealousy": Ravens amongst trees'''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Spring Garden (1916)''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''The Sentinels: Rooks in the snow (1895)''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''A Nap, Kilmurry, Co Kilkenny''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''The Flowers of August (1900)''<ref name="The Flowers of August 1900 Christies" /> * ''Peacocks and Peahens on a Sunlit Lawn''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''At Lismore, Co Waterford (1913)''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Fine Feathers''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Threashing in a riverside Field (1910)''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Peacocks at Kilmurry (1910)''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Doves at the Edge of a Garden''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''A Cat stalking Pigeons''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Rose Peany''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Crows resting in a snow covered Landscape''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''A Summer Border (1914)''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Young Jackdaws''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Aix les Bains''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''A bluebell wood''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Kilmurry''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''A French Chateau (1901)''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Cattle grazing''<ref name="Other Christies" /> * ''Trees by a meadow''<ref name="Other Sothebys" /> }}{{refend}}

== See also == {{Commons category|Mildred Anne Butler}} * Newlyn School * List of Irish artists * List of Irish botanical illustrators

==Notes== {{refbegin|2}} '''a.''' {{Note label|A|a|none}} The Royal Academy in London refused to show artists who painted in the French style, young painters had to form their own society in order to exhibit.<ref name="Butler Cork" /> This attitude waned throughout the 1890s.<ref name="Butler Cork" />

'''b.''' {{Note label|B|b|none}} ''The Morning Bath (1896)'' was amongst the few watercolours that were purchased by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest<ref name="Crookshank 1981" /> and was the second work by a female artist to be purchased (the first was Anna Lea Merritt's 'Love Locked Out' in 1890) and was presented to the Tate.<ref name="RAA/PD/12(1)" /> {{refend}}

== References ==

=== Footnotes === {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Butler hughlane"> {{cite web|url=http://www.hughlane.ie/online_catalogue/artist-detail.php?id=465 | title = Butler, Mildred Anne (1858 - 1941) | publisher = Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane | location = Dublin | access-date = 24 June 2010}} </ref> <ref name="Butler Cork"> {{cite encyclopedia | url = http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/irish-artists/mildred-anne-butler.htm | title = Mildred Anne Butler | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art | publisher = Visual Arts Cork | location = Cork }} </ref> <ref name="Butler Tate"> {{cite web | url = http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=72&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio | title = Mildred Anne BUTLER 1858–1941 | publisher = Tate }} </ref> <ref name="stamp">{{cite web |url = http://www.irishstamps.ie/IrishStamps/downloads/CollectorsNewsIssue1.pdf |title = Irish Female Artists Collection |work = IRISH STAMPS Collectors News |publisher = An Post |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171128200455/http://www.irishstamps.ie/IrishStamps/downloads/CollectorsNewsIssue1.pdf |archive-date = 2017-11-28 |url-status = dead }}</ref> <ref name="Kilkenny400 2009"> {{Cite web | last = Butler Gallery | author-link = Butler Gallery | title = Kilkenny: An Artists' Celebration (17 October – 16 December 2009) | publisher = Butler Gallery | date = 17 October 2009 | url = http://www.butlergallery.com/download/Kilkenny400.pdf }} </ref> <ref name="Fota"> {{cite web | url = http://www.fotahouse.com/display.php?primarynav=History_and_Architecture&secondarynav=The%20Collection | title = The Collection | publisher = Fota House, Arboretum & Gardens | location = County Cork }} </ref> <ref name="Meditation 1889 Adams"> {{cite web|url=http://www.mafineart.com/works_for_sale/m_a_butler__meditation.phtml | title = Meditation 1889 | publisher = www.mafineart.com }} </ref> <ref name="A Dead Magpie in a Tree Adam"> {{cite web | url = http://www.hughlane.ie/online_catalogue/work-detail.php?objectid=177 | title = A Dead Magpie in a Tree | publisher = www.adams.ie | location = Fernhill, Ireland }} </ref> <ref name="christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?entry=Mildred%20Anne%20Butler&searchtype=p Mildred Anne Butler] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Sothebys"> [http://browse.sothebys.com/?count=20&hp=&hpc=&i=1&omit=BI|WDN&q=MILDRED+ANNE+BUTLER&sla=1&slaform=1&u1=q Mildred Anne Butler], Sotheby's </ref> <ref name="mutualart"> [http://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Mildred-Anne-Butler/402CDC792B82C490/Artworks?Promo=3DE4F191D6FAA70A Mildred Anne Butler], [http://www.mutualart.com MutualArt]. </ref> <ref name="stamp image"> [http://www2.arnes.si/~bcebul/ie-1633.jpg Mildred Anne Butler Stamp]. </ref> <ref name="Kilkenny 1981"> {{Citation | last = Crookshank | first = Anne | author2 = Knight of Glin | title = Mildred Anne Butler 1858-1941 | url = http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=10132052106&author=Butler%2C+Mildred+Anne&browse=1&qwork=4365204&qsort=&page=1 | year = 1981 | orig-year = 1981 | publisher = Trustees Of The Late Doreen Archer Houblon, Kilkenny. | quote = Catalogue to an Exhibition held by the Kilkenny Art Gallery Society at Kilkenny Castle from June 1981. }}. {{Citation | last = Butler | first = Mildred Anne | author2 = National Gallery of Ireland | author2-link = National Gallery of Ireland | title = Mildred Anne Butler 1858-1941 | url = http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=10276650758&browse=1&qwork=4365204&qsort=&page=1 | publisher = Crawford Municipal Art Gallery. | quote = Watercolour Collection exhibition catalogue. }}. </ref>

<ref name="Morning Bath Tate"> {{cite web | url = http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1869&searchid=13435 | title = Morning Bath exhibited 1896 | publisher = Tate }} </ref> <ref name="Turnip Cart 1896 whytes"> [http://www.whytes.ie/4ImageDisplay.asp?AUCTION=20080929&IMAGE=132 Toll from the Turnip Cart (1896)], [http://www.whytes.ie Whytes]. </ref> <ref name="The Wanderers 1898 hughlane"> [http://www.hughlane.ie/online_catalogue/work-detail.php?objectid=177 The Wanderers (1898)], Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. </ref> <ref name="The Garden Cart Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4902500 The Garden Cart] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275803 Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry]. Christie's: [http://www.christies.com Fine Art Auctions]. </ref> <ref name="Tramore Strand, Low water 1889 sothebys"> [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=3ZKSH Tramore Strand, Low water (1889)], Sotheby's. </ref> <ref name="Where the Grass Grows Green 1904 sothebys"> [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159592834 Where the Grass Grows Green]. Sotheby's. </ref> <ref name="The Delegates 1923 Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275804 The Delegates (1923)] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Dandelions and Scillas Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1785998 Dandelions and Scillas] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="The Garden Path 1922 Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1785999 The Garden Path (1922)] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Procession through the bluebells sothebys"> [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159594019 Procession through the bluebells], Sotheby's [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House]. </ref> <ref name="Side-cars Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275999 Side-cars] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Foxgloves Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275943 Foxgloves] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Poppies 1904 Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275941 Poppies (1904)] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="The Lily Pond 1897 Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2040641 The Lily Pond (1897)] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="In the Conservatory, Kilmurry"> [http://www.jorgensenfineart.com/gallery1/pages/butler.htm In the Conservatory, Kilmurry], [http://www.jorgensenfineart.com Jorgensen Fine Art Gallery]. </ref> <ref name="In the conservatory Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275942 In the conservatory] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="View in Pembroke Street, Dublin sothebys"> [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=47QL3 View in Pembroke Street, Dublin] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="A garden path, probably Kilmurry Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4493783 A garden path, probably Kilmurry] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="a summer's day sothebys"> [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=R3BX a summer's day], Sotheby's [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House]. </ref> <ref name="Hollyhocks Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275940 Hollyhocks] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Winter Survival Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1469714 Winter Survival] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Low water, Tramore, Waterford 1919 Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4493784 Low water, Tramore, Waterford (1919)] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Station cabbies 1898 Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3907861 Station cabbies (1898)] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Poppies at Kilmurry: View across a wild Garden; and In flower Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275941 Poppies at Kilmurry: View across a wild Garden; and In flower] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Autumn by the Lake 1890 Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2040640 Autumn by the Lake (1890)] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Figures beside a horse and chaise 1896 Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2040642 Figures beside a horse and chaise (1896)] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="horses grazing 1998 sothebys"> [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=3PMZG horses grazing], Sotheby's [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House]. </ref> <ref name="RAA/PD/12(1)"> Royal Academy ArchivesRAA/PD/12(1) Chantrey Bequest acquisitions 1877-1931. </ref> <ref name="Cats Chasing Birds 1918 Whytes"> [http://www.whytes.ie/4ImageDisplay.asp?AUCTION=20071126&IMAGE=130 Kilmurry - Cats Chasing Birds (1918)], [http://www.whytes.ie Whytes Irish art auctioneers]. </ref> <ref name="Peacocks Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275828 Peacocks] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="The Spring Garden, Kilmurry Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4493782 The Spring Garden, Kilmurry] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Study of a Delphinium Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3916928 Study of a Delphinium] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Sheep in a meadow Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4100077 Sheep in a meadow] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="The Grinding Wheel, Kilmurry Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4100078 The Grinding Wheel, Kilmurry] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Cattle grazing, Kilmurry Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5067635 Cattle grazing, Kilmurry] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="edge of the woods sothebys"> [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=47W3L Edge of the Woods], Sotheby's [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House]. </ref> <ref name="Cattle in the shade, Kilmurray 1917"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5221973 Cattle in the shade, Kilmurray] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Lismore, Waterford Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4289326 Lismore, Waterford] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="Two cats, Kilmurry Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4704749 Two cats, Kilmurry] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="The Kilmurry Estate Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5067571 The Kilmurry Estate] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="A Trout Stream Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5235064 A Trout Stream ] sold through Christie's. </ref> <ref name="The Flowers of August 1900 Christies"> [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1054062 The Flowers of August (1900)] sold through Christie's. </ref>   <ref name="Other Christies"> Other works sold through Christie's, [http://www.christies.com Fine Art Auctions], including [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1054064 The Sentinels: Rooks in the snow (1895)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=666923 A French Chateau (1901)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=188251 Peacocks at Kilmurry (1910)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1015864 Threashing in a riverside Field (1910)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=883740 At Lismore, Co. Waterford (1913)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2681227 A Summer Border (1914)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1054065 A bluebell wood], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1432226 Aix les Bains], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=883580 A Nap, Kilmurry, Co. Kilkenny], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3730143 Rose Peany (1916)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3743132 Cattle grazing], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3109461 Peacocks], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1054063 Chucked; Green Eyed Jealousy: Ravens amongst trees (1894)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=883578 A Cat stalking Pigeons], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=883739 Young Jackdaws], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1015863 Peacocks and Peahens on a Sunlit Lawn], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3916928 Fine Feathers], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1420234 Crows resting in a snow covered Landscape Christies], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3042493 Doves at the Edge of a Garden], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3735642 Kilmurry], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2681226 Spring Garden (1916)].</ref> <ref name="Other Sothebys"> Other works from Sotheby's, [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House], including [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=X9B3 madonna lilies], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=33ZXG Peacocks], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=33ZXG Summer garden], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=R3BZ Edge of the Wood], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=X99X Sheep grazing in the pasture], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=X9B5 Trees by a meadow], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=33ZXM The Cottage Garden].</ref>   <ref name="Other Websites"> Other works from websites including [http://data.bidmaster.co.uk/devere/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=A34&LotRef=22 The Farmyard], [http://www.prints.com/prints.php/Mildred_Anne_Butler/Madonna_Lilies/?artist_id=6856&print_id=5209491 Madonna Lilies], [http://www.shopcreator.com/mall/productpage.cfm/NationalGalleryofIreland/_cp7/284130/Lilac%20Phlox%2C%20Mildred%20Ann%20Butler%201912. Lilac Phlox]. </ref>  }}

=== Further reading === {{Refbegin}} * {{Citation | last = Chamot | first = Mary | author2 = Dennis Farr | author3 = Martin Butlin | author3-link = Martin Butlin | title = The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture | ol = 14812923M | volume = I | year = 1964 | publisher = Oldbourne Press | location = London | oclc = 503229940 }}. * {{Citation | last = Crookshank | first = Anne | author2 = National Gallery of Ireland | author2-link = National Gallery of Ireland | title = Mildred Anne Butler, 1858-1941 (Lives of Irish Artists) | date = May 1992 | publisher = Town House | location = Dublin | isbn = 978-0-948524-37-0 |ref={{Harvid|Crookshank|1992}} }}. * {{Citation | last = Huish | first = Marcus B. | title = ''British water-colour art'' in the first year of the reign of King Edward the Seventh and during the century covered by the life of the Royal society of painters in water colours / illustrated by the collection of drawings dedicated by that Society to Their Majesties the King and Queen at their coronation | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vNzQnr3nGMwC | edition = First | year = 1904 | publisher = The Fine art Society, A. & C. Black | isbn = 978-1-4437-6842-9 | page = 94 | chapter = Mildred Anne Butler, A.R.W.S | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vNzQnr3nGMwC&pg=PA94 }}. * National Gallery of Ireland, ''Irish Women Artists'' 1987 * County Life v.182, 25 August 1988, 124 * Desmond, Ray '' (1994) [https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists: including plant collectors, flower painters, and garden designers]''

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