Niamh MacNally, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Ireland, previews the new exhibition on Irish artist Mildred Anne Butler …Like many talented women artists of her generation,
Mildred Anne Butler came from a privileged background. She was born in Kilmurry House, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny in 1858. The mid-18th century manor house was her lifelong home, while the family’s 350-acre estate provided her with infinite inspiration and a wealth of exquisite colour to paint. Butler delighted in documenting rural life through the seasons, and all the activities of domestic and farm life.
Credit: Reproduced with kind permission of The Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast. Photographer Simon McWilliams. is one such large-scale watercolour, showing a peacock fanning its extravagant tail feathers to attract a peahen. Visitors will marvel at Butler’s tremendous ability to capture her immediate surroundings, while learning more about her life as a professional artist, through a selection of archival material that is on loan from Trinity College Dublin.
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