George Edmund Butler Britain, New Zealand, 1870-1936
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About George Edmund Butler
Born in England in 1872, George Butler arrived in Wellington, New Zealand in 1881. He studied under James Nairn from 1890, and in 1898 spent two years in Europe studying in London, Paris and Antwerp. He exhibited in Wellington and Dunedin until 1908 when he returned to England and exhibited with the Royal Academy. During World War I he was appointed Official War Artist with the New Zealand troops. In 1905 he returned to England and worked as a teacher in Bristol. He was elected to the Royal West of England Academy in 1912, and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Academy and the annual exhibition at the Société des Artistes Français in Paris.
In our database, 65 works by George Butler are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1974, of which 47 (72%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $19,200 for Messines sold by Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies) in April 2007. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by George Butler are held by the Christchurch Art Gallery.
George Edmund Butler is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 37
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
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