2-648-129 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'James Butler', c1537 (1945). The subject of the portrait was formerly identified as Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and cousin of James Butler. James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and 2nd Earl of Ossory (1496-1546), was son of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and Margaret Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond. His death by poisoning in London remains an unsolved mystery. The drawing is part of the Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle. From The Drawings of Holbein at Windsor Castle by K. T. Parker. [The Phaidon Press Ltd, Oxford & London, 1945]