John Butler Yeats 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 1900. His portrait of John O'Leary (1904) is considered his masterpiece.
John Butler Yeats by Alice Boughton
Portrait of W. B. Yeats (1900)
Self-portrait (1919)
Portrait of Countess Constance Markievicz (before 1922); an Irish politician, revolutionary nationalist and suffragette; pencil drawing
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
Yeats photographed in 1903 by Alice Boughton
1900 portrait by Yeats's father, John Butler Yeats
Maud Gonne (c. 1900)
W. B. Yeats (no date)