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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Margaret, Lady Butts (c.1485-1545) c.1541-3
Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink, brush and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper | 37.7 x 27.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912264
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A portrait drawing of Margaret, Lady Butts (c.1485-1545), wife of Sir William Butts, and daughter of John Bacon. She served as a lady-in-waiting to Princess Mary and belonged to the circle of Queen Katherine Parr. A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the left. She wears a gabled headdress and fur collar. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: The Lady Buts. A related painting is in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Medium and techniques
Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink, brush and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper
black chalk, red chalk, brown chalk, pen and ink, brush and ink, metalpoint, pale pink prepared paperMeasurements
37.7 x 27.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12264
