Lot 4
4
Mildred Anne Butler, R.W.S. (1858-1941)
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Mildred Anne Butler, R.W.S. (1858-1941)

The Delegates

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Mildred Anne Butler, R.W.S. (1858-1941)
The Delegates
signed 'Mildred A. Butler' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and dated 'Mildred A Butler 1923/A.R.W.S. Kilmurry/Thomastown/No2/The Delegates' (on the reverse) and signed again and inscribed 'New Irish Salon the Delegates Miss Mildred A. Butler A.R.W.S./Kilmurry- Thomastown/Co Kilkenny/£15.15.0' (on an old label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white
14 x 10½ in. (35.6 x 26.7 cm.)
Provenance
with Dillon Antiques, 1983, where purchased by the present owners.
Exhibited
New Irish Salon, 1923, no. 2.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Paintings of birds such as peacocks and rooks were favourite subjects of Butler and she executed a number of watercolours of rooks with witty anthropomorphic titles, such as Chucked; Green Eyed Jealousy: Ravens amongst trees, Christie's, London, 14 July 1998, lot 127.

For a note on the artist see lot 3.

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