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Sir William Butts
Sir William Butts

Sir William Butts

Unidentified artist, British, second quarter 16th century
Medium/TechniqueTempera and oil on panel
Dimensions74.6 x 60.3 cm (29 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.)
Credit LineCharles Edward French Fund
Accession number35.1751
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsCenter left: ANNO DNI. 154[...]; Center right: [...}TA[...}IS SVAE XXX[...]Provenance1540s-1583, Sir William Butts, London, England, UK (original commission, the sitter, d. 1583) [see note 1]; 1583-early 20th century, by inheritance to the Butts family; by inheritance to Capt. J.F. Anthony Butts; 1935, by inheritance to Mrs. Coleville Hyde and Anthony Butts [see note 2]; 1935, sold by Hyde and Butts to the MFA for $80,000 [see note 3]. (Accession Date: November 7, 1935)

NOTES:
[1] Lived at Somerset House, London, son of Sir William Butts, physician to Henry VIII, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk under Queen Elizabeth.
[2] Mrs. Hyde was the widow of Capt. J.F. Butts, Anthony Butts was their son.
[3] Accessioned as Hans Holbein the Younger.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The elder Sir William Butts had two portraits done by Holbein, one of which is in Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, P21e1.
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