Martin Richard Fletcher Butlin, CBE, FBA (born 7 June 1929) is a British art historian.
[6] Throughout his working life Butlin has researched assiduously, producing a number of publications in his area of expertise.
[7] Butlin co-authored with Evelyn Joll The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner, first published in 1977, both authors receiving the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art a year later.
The book was described in Joll's obituary as a "... fully rounded catalogue raisonné of some 560 paintings..."[8] Photographs attributed to Butlin appear at the Courtauld Institute's of Art's Conway Library.
[9] This is a collection of mainly architectural images containing glass and film negatives as well as prints.