John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922). The Irish portrait painter and illustrator John Butler Yeats was born in County Down in 1839. He was the father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. Best... Read full biography
John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922). The Irish portrait painter and illustrator John Butler Yeats was born in County Down in 1839. He was the father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. Best known for his portrait of the young WB Yeats - one of several of his paintings in the Yeats museum... Read full biography
John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922). The Irish portrait painter and illustrator John Butler Yeats was born in County Down in 1839. He was the father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. Best known for his portrait of the young WB Yeats - one of several of his paintings in the Yeats museum in the National Gallery of Ireland - his masterpiece is generally considered to be his portrait of John O'Leary (1904). John Yeats was educated in Trinity College Dublin and started a career as a... Read full biography
John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922). The Irish portrait painter and illustrator John Butler Yeats was born in County Down in 1839. He was the father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. Best known for his portrait of the young WB Yeats - one of several of his paintings in the Yeats museum in the National Gallery of Ireland - his masterpiece is generally considered to be his portrait of John O'Leary (1904). John Yeats was educated in Trinity College Dublin and started a career as a barrister. When he was 23, his father died leaving him a small estate in County Kildare. In 1863 he married Susan Pollexfen and took up residence at 5 Sandymount Avenue Dublin, where WB Yeats was born in 1865. In 1867, he switched from law to art and... Read full biography
John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922). The Irish portrait painter and illustrator John Butler Yeats was born in County Down in 1839. He was the father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. Best known for his portrait of the young WB Yeats - one of several of his paintings in the Yeats museum in the National Gallery of Ireland - his masterpiece is generally considered to be his portrait of John O'Leary (1904). John Yeats was educated in Trinity College Dublin and started a career as a barrister. When he was 23, his father died leaving him a small estate in County Kildare. In 1863 he married Susan Pollexfen and took up residence at 5 Sandymount Avenue Dublin, where WB Yeats was born in 1865. In 1867, he switched from law to art and moved to London, which which played havoc with his financial position. Indeed, he remained financially insecur... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (9)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde
1991
Watson, Steven
439 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Prodigal Father The Life of John Butler Yeats (1839-1922)
1978
Murphy, William M
680 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index