She raised parrots and loved them very much. Elizabeth Butterworth (born 1949) is an

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artist, especially known for her paintings of

parrot Parrots, also known as psittacines (), are birds of the roughly 398 species in 92 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes (), found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoid ...

s. She was born in

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, and studied at the Rochdale School of Art 1966–1968,

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1968–1971, and at the

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in London 1971–1974. She has had numerous solo

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s of her work. Publications containing her work include: * 1978 – ''Parrots and Cockatoos''. (Text by

Rosemary Low Rosemary Low is a British aviculturist, ornithologist, conservationist, writer and expert on parrots. Low started her career as a writer for the magazine, ''Cage and Aviary Birds''. At that time, she and her husband had a collection of about 50 p ...

). Fischer Fine Art: London. * 1983 – ''Amazon Parrots''. (With Rosemary Low). Rodolphe d'Erlanger: London. * 1989 – ''Parrots, Macaws. Cockatoos: The Art of Elizabeth Butterworth''. Abrams: New York. * 1993 – ''Macaws''. Rodolphe d'Erlanger: London

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