Butler, Elizabeth Southerden (1846–1933)

English painter. Popular in the Victorian era for her images of military life and warfare, she made her reputation with Roll Call (1874) and Inkermann (1877) but is perhaps best known for Scotland for Ever! (1881), which depicts the charge of the Royal Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo.

Butler was born in Lausanne, the daughter of a scholar and concert pianist. Her pictures seem to glorify war, but her focus was on the heroism of the common soldier rather than on the officers. She was the sister of the poet Alice Meynell (1847–1922).