Matilda Butters

Also known as Matilda O'Neill
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Costume designer. As the wife of would-be politician James Stewart Butters she managed a short but exciting career as spouse--and vote-getter by gaining public attention with her garish fancy dress. Her husband sometimes joined in the fun by donning complementary costumes.
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Citations

  • (1999), 'Mrs Butters Goes To The Ball Dressed In A Great Nineteenth-Century Printed Work’, Australian Antique Collector, Dec 1998-June 1999, pp.133-135.

  • Milner, A.C. (c.1970), 'James Stewart Butters’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol. 3, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • (20 October 1866), Illustrated Melbourne.

See also

  • '(Heritage biography), section 6, plate 228'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

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References [<ExternalResource: (1999), 'Mrs Butters Goes To The Ball Dressed In A Great Nineteenth-Century Printed Work', Australian Antique Collector, Dec 1998-June 1999, pp.133-135.>, <ExternalResource: Milner, A.C. (c.1970), 'James Stewart Butters', Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol. 3, Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: (20 October 1866), Illustrated Melbourne.>]