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Rh was fond of drawing soldiers and horses She studied at the South Kensington School, at Florence under Bellucci, and in Rome She worked as an amateur some years, first exhibiting at the Academy in 1873 her picture called "Missing," which was praised; but the "Roll-Call," of the following year, placed her in the front rank of the Academy exhibitors It was purchased by the Queen and hung in Windsor Castle. She next exhibited the "Twenty-Eighth Regiment at Quatre Bras," the "Return from Inkerman," purchased by the Fine Art Society for £3,000 This was followed by kindred subjects. In 1890 Lady Butler exhibited "Evicted," in 1891 the "Camel Corps," in 1892 "Halt in a Forced March," in 1895 the "Dawn of Waterloo," in 1896 "Steady the Drums and Fifes," in 1902 "Tent Pegging in India," in 1903 "Within Sound of the Guns"

In 1869 she painted a religious picture called the " Magnificat." In water-colors she has painted " Sketches in Tuscany " and several pictures of soldiers, among which are "Scot's Grays Advancing " and "Cavalry at a Gallop."

Lady Butler has recently appeared as an author, publishing "Letters from the Holy Land," illustrated by six- teen most attractive drawings in colors. The Spectator says: "Lady Butler's letters and diary, the outcome of a few weeks' journeyings in Palestine, express simply and forcibly the impressions made on a devout and cultivated mind by the scenes of the Holy Land."

In 1875 Ruskin wrote in "Notes of the Academy": "I never approached a picture with more iniquitous prejudice against it than I did Miss Thompson's—’Quatre Bras'