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John Butler Yeats (16 March 1839 – 3 February 1922) was an Irish artist and the father of W. B. Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lolly" Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. The National Gallery of Ireland holds a number of his portraits in oil and works on paper, including one of his portraits of his son William, painted in 1900. [ 1 ]
Yeats, John Butler (1839–1922), painter and critic, was the eldest of the three sons of the Rev. William Butler Yeats (1806–62), Church of Ireland rector of Tullylish, Co. Down, and his wife, Jane Grace Corbet (1811–76). John Butler Yeats was brought up in a strict protestant evangelical tradition.
Jack Butler Yeats (born August 23, 1871, London, England—died March 28, 1957, Dublin, Ireland) was the most important Irish painter of the 20th century. His scenes of daily life and Celtic mythology contributed to the surge of nationalism in the Irish arts after the Irish War of Independence (1919–21).
Sep 14, 2017 · As his biographer William Murphy wrote, ‘If ever an artist needed an agent, it was John Butler Yeats. With no gift for organisation and no head for business, he resisted offers of assistance from family and friends and stubbornly went his own way’ (quoted in ‘The Artist and the Man’, The Drawings of John Butler Yeats, 1987, p.11).
John Butler Yeats (JBY) was just months short of his 69th birthday when he decided to accompany his daughter Lily on a visit to New York where she was due to exhibit her craft work. He arrived in America in late-December 1907 and never went back, New York City becoming his adopted home for the last 14 years of his life.
The Irish portrait painter and illustrator John Butler Yeats was born in County Down in 1839. He was the father of the painter Jack Butler Yeats, and the famous poet WB Yeats.
John Butler Yeats was born in County Down and studied law at Trinity College, Dublin. He qualified as a barrister and with his considerable connections was assured a good practice at the bar. In 1862 he went to County Sligo to visit his old school friend George Pollexfen.
