In 1869 she painted a religious picture called the “Magnificat.”  In water-colors she has painted “Sketches in Tuscany” and several pictures of soldiers, among which are “Scot’s Grays Advancing” and “Cavalry at a Gallop.”

Lady Butler has recently appeared as an author, publishing “Letters from the Holy Land,” illustrated by sixteen most attractive drawings in colors.  The Spectator says:  “Lady Butler’s letters and diary, the outcome of a few weeks’ journeyings in Palestine, express simply and forcibly the impressions made on a devout and cultivated mind by the scenes of the Holy Land.”

In 1875 Ruskin wrote in “Notes of the Academy”:  “I never approached a picture with more iniquitous prejudice against it than I did Miss Thompson’s—­’Quatre Bras’—­partly because I have always said that no woman could paint, and secondly because I thought what the public made such a fuss about must be good for nothing.  But it is Amazon’s work this, no doubt of it, and the first fine pre-Raphaelite picture of battle we have had; profoundly interesting, and showing all manner of illustrative and realistic faculty....  The sky is most tenderly painted, and with the truest outline of cloud of all in the Exhibition; and the terrific piece of gallant wrath and ruin on the extreme left, when the cuirassier is catching round the neck of his horse as he falls, and the convulsed fallen horse, seen through the smoke below, is wrought through all the truth of its frantic passion with gradations of color and shade which I have not seen the like of since Turner’s death.”

The Art Journal, 1877, says:  “‘Inkerman’ is simply a marvellous production when considered as the work of a young woman who was never on the field of battle....  No matter how many figures she brings into the scene, or how few, you may notice character in each figure, each is a superb study.”

Her recent picture, “Within Sound of the Guns,” shows a company of mounted soldiers on the confines of a river in South Africa.

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CAMERON, KATHERINE. Member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colors; Modern Sketch Club, London; Ladies’ Art Club, Glasgow.  Born in Glasgow.  Studied at Glasgow School of Art under Professor Newbery, and at the Colarossi Academy, Paris, under Raphael Collin and Gustave Courtois.

Her pictures are of genre subjects principally, and are in private collections. “‘The Sea Urchin,’” Miss Cameron writes, “is in one of the public collections of Germany.  I cannot remember which.”  She also says:  “Except for my diploma R. S. W. and having my drawings sometimes in places of honor, usually on the line, and often reproduced in magazines, I have no other honors.  I have no medals.”