Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922

Yeats was an Irish portrait painter and father of both W.B. and J.B. Yeats. He lived many years in London and spent his last 14 in New York City.

Irish barrister and artist, the father of the poet W.B. Yeats.

John Butler Yeats was an Irish painter, illustrator, and man of letters who resided in Ireland and England. Yeats' son, W.B. (William Butler) Yeats, was a noted Irish poet, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Another son, Jack Yeats made his name as an artist and writer. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers.

John Butler Yeats was an Irish portrait painter and the father of the poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Jack Butler Yeats.

Van Wyck Brooks was a friend and protégé of John Butler Yeats in New York, ca. 1908-1911.

Epithet: painter, father of William B. and Jack B. Yeats

Irish painter John Butler Yeats (1839–1932) was born in County Down. He is the father of poet W. B. (William Butler) Yeats and painter Jack B. Yeats. John Butler Yeats' daughters were also literary. Susan Mary Yeats [Lily] and Elizabeth Corbet [Lollie, Lolly] Yeats founded [with Evelyn Gleeson] the Dun Emer Press (later the Cuala Press). John Butler Yeats was a friend of Irish painter Hugh Lane. John Butler Yeats has also written essays and reviews.

Hogan, Robert, ed., Dictionary of Irish Literature. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1979), pp. 697, 700-701. Nicola Gordon Bowe, "Yeats, Susan Mary [Lily] (1866–1949)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61425 (accessed April 10, 2007).