Theodore Earl Butler

Theodore Earl Butler, (1861–1936) was an American impressionist painter. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Paris to chemical analysis art. He befriended Claude Monet in Giverny, and married his stepdaughter, Suzanne Hoschedé. After her death he married her sister, Marthe Hoschedé. Butler was a founding believer of the Society of Independent Artists.

Butler's chosen subjects were domestic scenes of family and connections and the French landscape. Although his Impressionistic get into to painting sometimes reflected the pretend to have of his father-in-law, his work also suggests Post-Impressionist tendencies.