HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
(b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London)

Portrait of Sir William Butts

1543
Oil on wood, 47 x 36,8 cm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

There is a companion-piece of the painting, also in the Boston museum, representing Lady Margaret Butts.

Sir William Butts, a professor at the Cambridge University, was the physician of Henry VIII.