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Mildred Anne Butler RA RWS (1858 - 1941)
The Gate to the Herbaceous Garden
Watercolour, 36.5 x 27cm (14½ x 10½”)
Signed
Provenance: Important Irish Art sale, these rooms, 15th March 1990,
Cat. No. 141, where purchased by the current owners
Exhibition: Irish Women Artists 1870-1970
Exhibition Cat No. 8
Literature:
Irish Women Artists 1870-1970
, full page
illustration p.10
A privileged upbringing allowed Mildred Anne Butler to travel to
London to study under Paul Jacob Naftel (1817-91) and later to
Paris where she joined the studio of Henri Gervex (1852-1929)
for a time. She exhibited at the Dudley Gallery in 1888 and in
1890 with the Royal Water Colour Society of Ireland. She was
included in the first exhibition of the Belfast Art Society, showed
five works at the RHA and in 1896 had the rare honour of being
included in the Royal Academy annual show where her presence
was vastly outnumbered by those of male artists. Butler’s work was
represented at Hugh Lane’s exhibition at Guildhall in London in
1904, and three years later had a show with Percy French, Claude
Hayes and Bingham McGuinness at the New Dudley Gallery.
€3,000 - 5,000
