Martin Butlin

Martin Richard Fletcher Butlin CBE FBA (born 7 June 1929)[1] is a British art historian, an authority on historic British art and in particular Turner and William Blake.

Career

Butlin was educated at Rendcomb College, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Courtauld Institute.[1] He was Assistant Keeper 1955–67 and Keeper of the Historic British Collection at the Tate Gallery 1967–89. He has been a consultant to Christie's in London from 1989.[2]

Butlin was appointed CBE in the 1990 New Year Honours.[3]

Publications
  • William Blake (1757-1827): A Catalogue of the Works of William Blake in the Tate Gallery, 1957, 2nd edition 1971, 3rd edition 1990
  • Samuel Palmer’s Sketchbook of 1824, 1962; 2nd edition Samuel Palmer: the sketchbook of 1824, 2005
  • Turner Watercolours, Barrie & Jenkins, 1962. ISBN 0214157997
  • Turner (with Sir John Rothenstein), Heinemann, 1964
  • The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture (with Mary Chamot and Dennis Farr), Tate Gallery Catalogue, 1964
  • The Later Works of J. M. W. Turner, Tate Gallery little book series, 1965
  • William Blake, Tate Gallery little book series, 1966
  • The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 in the collection of M.D.E. Clayton-Stamm, Heinemann, 1969
  • The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner (with Evelyn Joll), 1977, 2nd edition 1984 (authors jointly awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art, 1978)
  • William Blake, Tate Gallery, 1978. ISBN 0905005112
  • The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press, 1981. ISBN 0300025505
  • Aspects of British Painting 1550–1800, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation (exhibition catalogue), 1988
  • Turner at Petworth: Painter and Patron (with Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell), Tate Gallery, 1989
  • William Blake in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (with Ted Gott and Irena Zdanowicz), 1989
  • The Oxford Companion to J. M. W. Turner (ed. with Evelyn Joll and Luke Herrmann), 2001
  • William Blake's Watercolour Inventions in illustration of "The Grave" by Robert Blair (with Morton D. Paley), 2009

References
  1. BUTLIN, Martin Richard Fletcher, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015)
  2. International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 (Psychology Press, 2003), entry 'Butlin, Martin (Richard Fletcher)', page 85
  3. "No. 51981". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1989. p. 7.
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