Jack Butler Yeats | |
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 Yeats in 1904 | |
| Born | 29 August 1871 London, England |
| Died | 28 March 1957 (aged 85) Dublin, Ireland |
| Known for | Painting |
| Father | John Butler Yeats |
| Relatives | W. B. Yeats (brother) Lily Yeats (sister) Elizabeth Yeats (sister) |
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1924 Paris | Painting |
Jack Butler Yeats[1] RHA (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist. Born into a family of impoverished Anglo-Irish landholders, his father was the painter John Butler Yeats, and his brother was the poet W. B. Yeats.[2] Jack B. was born in London but was raised in County Sligo with his maternal grandparents, before returning to London in 1887 to live with his parents. Afterwards he travelled frequently between the two countries; while in Ireland he lived mainly in Greystones, County Wicklow and in Dublin city.
Butlers' first solo exhibition "Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland" was held in 1898. He began as an illustrator and watercolourist until moving to oil paint around 1906.[3] His early pictures are lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures predominantly from the west of Ireland. His early oil paintings are heavily influenced by Romanticism, before he adopted Expressionism c. 1910, for which he became famous.
He died in Dublin in 1957, aged 85 years. The National Gallery of Ireland holds a significant collection of his paintings, as well as his personal archive.[4]
- ^ "Residents of a house 13 in Rathdown Lower (Greystones, Wicklow)". 1911 Census of Ireland Records. National Archives of Ireland.
- ^ "Jack Butler Yeats". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ Pyle, 106
- ^ "Jack B. Yeats (1871–1957)". National Gallery of Ireland. Retrieved 28 October 2024