Howard Russell Butler
1856
—
1934
American painter (1856-1934)
Howard Russell Butler was an American painter and founder of the American Fine Arts Society. Butler persuaded Andrew Carnegie to fund the construction of Carnegie Lake near Princeton University, supervised the construction of the Carnegie Mansion, designed an astronomy hall, and painted a solar eclipse for the U.S. Naval Observatory.
_-_PP82_-_Princeton_University_Art_Museum.jpg/500px-Howard_Russell_Butler_-_James_Ormsbee_Murray_(1827-1899)_-_PP82_-_Princeton_University_Art_Museum.jpg)
_-_PP82_-_Princeton_University_Art_Museum.jpg){kind=link}
