Martin Butlin
Martin Richard Fletcher Butlin 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. 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.
Butlin was appointed CBE in the 1990 New Year Honours.Publications
- William Blake : 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.
- Turner, Heinemann, 1964
- The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 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, 1977, 2nd edition 1984
- William Blake, Tate Gallery, 1978.
- The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press, 1981.
- Aspects of British Painting 1550–1800, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1988
- Turner at Petworth: Painter and Patron, Tate Gallery, 1989
- William Blake in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1989
- The Oxford Companion to J. M. W. Turner, 2001
- William Blake's Watercolour Inventions in illustration of "The Grave" by Robert Blair, 2009
