as few pictures have ever done". The work had been commissioned for £100 by a Manchester industrialist Charles Galloway. However, Queen Victoria insisted that she should buy it, and the work remains in the Royal Collection. Lady Butler developed a reputation for her military pictures after the favourable reception of this painting. It was followed by a series of military paintings, Quatre Bras in 1875, and then two more Crimean paintings, Balaclava and Inkermann, exhibited at the Fine Art Society in 1876 and 1877. These were followed in 1879 by Remnants of an Army and in 1881 her most famous work, Scotland Forever!. In 1879, Butler came within two votes of becoming the first woman to be elected as an Associate Member of the Royal Academy (apart from two founder Members, Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffman; ultimately, the first female Associate Member was Annie Swynnerton, elected in 1922, and the first full Member was Laura Knight in 1936). In popular culture The painting is the subject of the first episode of Malcolm Gladwell's 2016 podcast, Revisionist History, in an episode entitled "The Lady Vanishes". References The Ultimate Spectacle: A Visual History of the Crimean War, Ulrich Keller, pp. 247–249. Realism and Anti-Aristocratic Sentiment in Victorian Depictions of the Crimean War, Matthew Lalumia, Victorian Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 25–51, Published by: Indiana University Press, Article Stable URL: Realism and Anti-Aristocratic Sentiment in Victorian Depictions of the Crimean War In the late 19th century, a painting by a virtually unknown artist took England by storm: The Roll Call. But after that brilliant first effort, the artist all but disappeared. Malcolm Gladwell podcast: Revisionist History – The Lady Vanishes – Pushkin 1874 paintings Paintings by Elizabeth Thompson War paintings