Thomas Buttersworth

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are marine. Places of work recorded in the authority are United States. Work by Thomas Buttersworth is recorded in the collections of Royal Museums Greenwich, New York Historical, Yale Center for British Art, Science Museum and Hull Maritime Museum.

Butterworth was born on the Isle of Wight. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in London in 1795, and served on HMS Caroline during the wars with France, before being invalided home from Menorca in 1800. The National Maritime Museum in London has 27 watercolours by him, several of which are mounted on sheets from 18th century printed signal and muster books. He went on to paint numerous naval battle scenes and pictures such as the ‘'Inshore Squadron off Cádiz in 1797'’ which are thought to show scenes he witnessed. On being appointed Marine Painter to the East India Company he painted ship portraits on commission. It had been thought that he died in 1830, but recent research has found that he painted Queen Victoria's visit to Edinburgh in 1842 before he died in London later that year. His son James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) also became a maritime painter.

• Illustration — British armed top sail schooner off Malaga, Spain, in the collection at The Mariners' Museum • Illustration — British brig attacking a French lugger in the collection at The Mariners' Museum • Illustration — the London off the Seven Sisters (1820) in the collection at The Mariners' Museum • Illustration — battle between United States & Macedonian (ca. 1820) in the collection at The Mariners' Museum