 Butler like her friend Rose Barton, who also studied under Naftel, did not follow his choice of landscape, instead she devoted herself to cattle, birds, and flower gardens.She continued her studies at Westminster School of Art under William Frank Calderon who specialised in animal painting and later opened a school of animal painting.At Frank Calderon's School she studied the subject of cows, and it was that work for which she was elected to the Old Society, the Royal Academy.