LADY BUTLER'S ‘WATERLOO’ with Ted Gott

It was the meticulous accuracy Lady Butler brought to her depictions of the Napoleonic, Afghan and Boer war campaigns that made her one of the most celebrated English military painters of the 19th century. Her painting, The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras, records an heroic stand made by the British forces on 16 June 1815, near Quatre Bras in Belgium - part of the legendary Waterloo campaign against Napoleon’s French armies.

Join Ted Gott as he explores this incredible painting.

Ted Gott is Senior Curator of International Art, National Gallery of Victoria. He has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions, most recently Napoleon: Revolution to Empire (with Karine Huguenaud from the Fondation Napoléon), currently showing at the National Gallery of Victoria. He has published widely on British and French art.

Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler (1846-1933), The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras, 1875, collection of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, purchased, 1884