An Autobiography
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108081282
ISBN-13
9781108081283
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 27th, 2015
Print length
380 Pages
Weight
498 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.60 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
The arts: general issuesThe arts: general topics
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This brisk and amusing 1922 autobiography by the military painter Elizabeth Butler (1848–1933), illustrated with her own sketches, takes the reader from her peripatetic childhood through her artistic success to her life and travels as the wife of a soldier and the mother of five children.
The young Elizabeth Butler (née Thompson, 1846–1933) and her sister, the poet Alice Meynell, were educated at home by their wealthy father, and much of their childhood was spent in Italy. Elizabeth began to train as an artist at the Female School of Art, South Kensington, in 1866. She became famous for her work in the genre (unusual for a woman) of military art, one of her best known paintings being The Roll Call, an imagined incident from the Crimea. She took great trouble to ensure the accuracy of the detail of regimental uniform, and her depiction of the bravery and stoicism of the 'ordinary British soldier' was much appreciated in the late nineteenth century. This brisk and amusing 1922 autobiography, illustrated with her own sketches, takes the reader from her childhood through her artistic success to her life as the wife of a soldier and the mother of five children.
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