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from Auction House Records. PORTRAIT OF LILY YEATS AT BEDFORD PARK, LONDON Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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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 (showing 500 of 2840 characters). |
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