Elizabeth Thompson

Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler was a British painter, who specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Napoleonic Wars. The Roll Call, The Defence of Rorke's Drift, and Scotland Forever!, showing the Scots Greys at Waterloo, are among her notable works. She wrote about her military paintings in an autobiography published in 1922: "I never painted for the glory of war, but to portray its pathos and heroism". She married Sir William Butler, becoming Lady Butler.