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(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Lady Margaret Bacon Butts
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Lady Margaret Bacon Butts

English, about 1485 - 1545
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BiographyA 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.
https://www.rct.uk/collection/912264/margaret-lady-butts-c-1485-1545; accessed 5/26/2021
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Last Updated8/7/24