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Painter, b. 1886 - d. 1962

Grace Ellen Butler (née Cumming, 23 December 1886 – 23 November 1962) was a New Zealand artist. Butler was known for her landscape paintings of New Zealand and her works are held in the collections of the Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

Born Grace Ellen Cumming, in 1886, Richmond Grove, Invercargill, she was the daughter Scottish immigrants, Jane Cameron and William Forbes Cumming, a carter and contractor. Following the death of her father in 1889 her family moved to the North Island and she attended the Norsewood School, where her eldest sister worked as a teacher.

She married Guy Raphael Butler, a law clerk from Poverty Bay, in Gisborne on 1 March 1911 and they settled in Christchurch. The couple went on to have three daughters.