1885
Thomas Edison invents the movie in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Butler travels to Paris, where he studies under Pascal Dagnan-Bouvert, a leader of the naturalist School. He leaves in June for a painting colony at Concarneau, Brittany, then returns to Paris in October and studies with Alfred-Philippe Roll.
Butler encounters the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage shortly after the latter’s death. In his Biographical Notes, Butler said that the artist’s work had “been a revelation to me."
