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Jack Butler Yeats. 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 ...
John Butler Yeats (1839–1922) was a portrait painter who failed as a businessman but enjoyed artistic success in Ireland and America. He was the father of the poet W. B. Yeats and the grandfather of the artist Jack B. Yeats.
Other articles where John Butler Yeats is discussed: Jack Butler Yeats: …Yeats was the son of John Butler Yeats, a well-known portrait painter, and he was the brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. He was privately educated in Sligo, Ireland, and he then attended various art schools in London, including the Westminster School of Art. His early work was mainly…
His father, John Butler Yeats, was a descendant of Jervis Yeats, a Williamite soldier, linen merchant, and well-known painter, who died in 1712. Benjamin Yeats, Jervis's grandson and William's great-great-grandfather, had in 1773 [3] married Mary Butler [4] of a landed family in County Kildare . [5]
Jan 19, 2022 · A hundred years ago, on February 2nd, 1922, James Joyce’s groundbreaking novel Ulysses was published. The same day was the last full day of life for John Butler Yeats, the barrister and painter ...
John Butler Yeats1839 - 1922. 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. When he married Susan Pollexfen, George's ...
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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.
