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lizabeth Thompson (who became Lady Butler on marriage, in 1877) achieved popular acclaim in the mid-Victorian period as an artist who depicted military subjects. Her prowess overcame the prejudice of John Ruskin against women artists, and her skill and patriotic appeal were such that people flocked to see her work.

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In 1874, the Prince of Wales praised her painting, The Roll Call, at the Royal Academy Banquet, and it was subsequently purchased — ceded by the Manchester industrialist Charles Galloway who had commissioned it, and taken from the wall, to the disappointment of eager crowds — by the Queen for the Royal Collection (Meynell 1).

Several years later, in 1879, she came within two votes (the closest of any woman artist of the age) to being elected to associateship with the Royal Academy: in the last of three ballots, she received 25 votes to Hubert Von Herkomer's 27 (Meynell 11). To come this close to breaking into the great (male) world of the Academy was truly remarkable at Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler), 1846-1933: A Brief Biography BAQOW