 Butler spent most of her life in the family home at Kilmurry with frequent trips to England and the continent.She continued painting until the 1930s when she stopped painting due to arthritis and died in 1941, aged 83.Butler's father Henry may have encouraged her to paint in her youth but her artistic training began in London in the late 1880s with the watercolourist Paul Jacob Naftel, whom she credited for her understanding of watercolours.