biography of George Bernard, Jnr. BUTLER (1838-1907)

Birth place: NYC

Death place: near Croton Falls, NY

Profession: Portrait, genre, animal, and still-life painter

Studied: With Thomas Hicks, NYC; Couture, Paris,1859

Exhibited: PAFA, 1888; Paris Expo., 1889 (prize); NAD, 1867-1907.

Member: Paris Salon, 1867; N.A., 1873

Comments: After the Civil War, in which he lost his right arm, Butler spent the years 1865-1874 working out of studios he established in both NYC and San Francisco. In 1875 he went to Italy, where he remained for a number of years. He was best known for his paintings of animals.

Sources: G&W; Art Annual, VI (1907/08), 106; Who's Who in America (1899-1900); Clement and Hutton; Cowdrey, NAD. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 327; WW05.