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anonymous: Sir William Butts  wikidata:Q20566485 reasonator:Q20566485
Artist
Unidentified artist, British, second quarter 16th century
Formerly attributed to John Bettes the Elder  (1530–1576)  wikidata:Q3181049
 
Alternative names
John Bettes I, John Bettes
Description British portrait painter and engraver
Date of birth/death 1530 Edit this at Wikidata 1570
Location of birth/death London London
Work period active c. 1531–1570
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
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Title
Sir William Butts Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Sir William Butts Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Sir William Butts Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Portrait of Sir William Butts the Younger
Depicted people William Butts Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1540 and 1549
date QS:P,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1549-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium tempera and oil on panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 74.6 cm (29.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 60.3 cm (23.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+74.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+60.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q49133
Current location
not on view
Accession number
35.1751 (Museum of Fine Arts Boston) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

Provenance:

  • 1540s-1583, Sir William Butts, London, England, UK (original commission, the sitter, d. 1583);
  • 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;
  • 1935, sold by Hyde and Butts to the MFA for $80,000. (Accession Date: November 7, 1935)
Credit line Charles Edward French Fund
Inscriptions

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ANNO DNI. 154[...]
center right:
[][][...]
Notes
English: "The portrait was overpainted early in its history with costume of c 1565-70. It is very damaged."[1]
References
  1. ↑ Strong, Roy (1969) The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, p. 66 , as by John Bettes the Elder
Source/Photographer Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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