John Butler Yeats

Father of W.B. Yeats and Jack B. Yeats — and a remarkable portrait painter in his own right.

John Butler Yeats (1839–1922) was one of Ireland's most important portrait painters — capturing the poets, thinkers, and artists of literary Ireland with psychological honesty and draughtsmanship of the highest order. His portraits of the figures who shaped the Irish Literary Revival are irreplaceable documents of a golden era, and paintings of genuine beauty quite apart from their historical interest.

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Portrait of W. B. Yeats by Irish artist John Butler Yeats, painted in a dark tonal palette with a contemplative expression.