page_title: Elizabeth Thompson
section_title: Paintings
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Thompson / Paintings
caption_attribution_description: English: 'Balaclava' by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler (1846-19330 in 1876
context_page_description: Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler was a British painter, and specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Battle of Waterloo. The Roll Call, The Defence of Rorke's Drift, and Scotland Forever!, showing the Scots Greys at the Battle of 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 Lieutenant General Sir William Butler, becoming Lady Butler.
context_section_description: The Magnificat (1872)
  Missing (1873)
  Calling the Roll After An Engagement, Crimea (or The Roll Call (1874) - H.M. The Queen; Buckingham Palace)
  Missed (1874)
  The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras (1875 – National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
  Balaclava (1876 – City of Manchester Art Gallery)
  The Return from Inkerman (1877 - Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull)
  Remnants of an Army (1879 – Tate Gallery displayed at the Somerset Military Museum, Taunton)
  Listed for the Connaught Rangers (1879 – Bury Art Museum)
  The Defence of Rorke's Drift (1880 - H.M The Queen; Windsor Castle)
  Scotland Forever! (1881 – Leeds Art Gallery)
  Tel-el-Kebir (1885)
  To the Front: French Cavalry Leaving a Breton City on the Declaration of War (1888-9 - Private Collection)
  Evicted (1890 - The Irish Folklore Commission University College Dublin)
  The Camel Corps (1891)
  Halt in a Forced March (1892 - Shropshire Military Museum, Shrewsbury)
  The Rescue of the Wounded (1895)
  The Dawn of Waterloo (1895 - Falkland Palace)
  Steady the Drums and Fifes (1897 - H.M. The Queen; 57th Regiment, The Middlesex)
  Floreat Etona! (1898 - Private Collection)
  Dawn at Waterloo (1898 - Private Collection)
  The Morning of Talavera (1898)
  The Colours: Advance of the Scots Guards at the Alma (1899 - Scots Guards)
  Within Sound of Guns (1903 - painted at Bansha Castle; Staff College, Camberley)
  Stand Fast Craigellachie (1903 - National War Museum Scotland)
  Rescue of Wounded, Afghanistan (1905 - Staff College, Camberley)
  In vain! Rally for a last charge of the Cuirassiers (1912-Private Collection)
  The 16th Light Dragoons saving the remnants of the Union Brigade (1915-Private Collection)
  On the Morrow of Talavera (1923 - Private Collection)
  The Charge of The Dorset Yeomanry at Agagia, 26th February, 1916 (1917 - [The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester])
  A Lament in the Desert (1925 - Private Collection)
  In the Retreat from Mons: The Royal Horse Guards (1927 - Royal Hospital, Chelsea)
  A Detachment of Cavalry in Flanders (1929 - Private Collection)
caption: Balaclava, 1876, Manchester Art Gallery
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