Mildred Anne BUTLER
Born in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland on the 11 January 1858, she studied at the Westminster School of Art with Frank Calderon. Though her sending-in address remained in Ireland throughout, she exhibited with a Newlyn title in 1896, and in the same year The Chantrey Bequest purchased The Morning Bath (RA, 1896).
She studied in the Summer classes of 1894 and 1895 with Norman GARSTIN, though there is no specific information about her visit/s to Cornwall. By 1935 she had moved to Wellington, New Zealand, but returned home to Thomastown by 1941, where she died on 11 October of that year, age 83.
media
Painter of genre, landscape and animals in watercolours
works and access
Works include: The Morning Bath (RA 1896, The Chantrey Bequest)
Access to works: Tate
exhibitions
NWS; RI; N; L
RA 1889-1902, 1896
memberships
ARWS 1896
references
Bednar
Benezit
Chantrey Bequest list: Tate On-line
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall;
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists
Who's Who 1911
Wood (1995) Victorian Painters
Wood & Hobhouse (1988) Painted Gardens - English Watercolours