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Ducks,Pencil sketch,Provenance: Cynthia O'Conner & Co., Kildare St. DublinMildred Anne Butler was raised at Kilmurry, Co. Kilkenny. Her father Captain Edward Butler, (1805-1881) was an accomplished watercolourist. Butler studied in London under Paul Jacob Naftel, (1817-1891) and in 1881 she began to exhibit at the Dudley Gallery, Piccadily. She also exhibited at the New Watercolour Society. In 1894 she moved to the artist colony at Newlyn, Cornwall where she worked with Norman Garstin and Stanhope Forbes. On her return to Kilmurry, she painted and exhibited many watercolours of garden scenes and bird studies. A cache of her work was discovered at Kilmurry after her death and sold at auction with considerable success. She exhibited 7 works at the Royal Academy, London. Examples of her work can be seen in the National Gallery of Ireland. A miniature watercolour was commissioned for Queen Mary's Dolls House.