John Butler Yeats

1839–1922 · Impressionism

John Butler Yeats RHA was an Irish artist and the father of W. B. Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lollie" 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.

20 paintings

• Acheson T. Henderson (1812–1909), QC (1891)
• Frederick Yorke-Powell (1892)
• Portrait of Miss K. Leney (1902)
• Portrait of Susan Mary (Lily) Yeats (1866 -1949), Embroiderer and Designer (1901)
• Portrait of Susan Mitchell (1866-1926), Poet (1899)
• Portrait of Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), Dramatist (1903)
• Portrait of Hester Dowden as a Child (1879)
• Portrait of Rosa Butt (d.1926) (1900)
• Portrait of Mrs Caughey (1916)
• Portrait of Mrs Caughey (1916)
• Portrait of Mary Lapsley Guest (née Caughey) (1901-1964) (1916)
• Portrait of Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh (1883-1958), Actress (1904)
• Self-Portrait (1921)
• Portrait of John O'Leary (1830-1907), Fenian (1904)
• Portrait of John O'Leary (1830-1907), Nationalist and Journalist (1904)
• Portrait of Standish James O'Grady (1832-1915), Author (1904)
• Portrait of AE (George W. Russell) (1867-1935), Poet (1903)
• Portrait of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Poet (1900)
• Portrait of Douglas Hyde, First President of Ireland (1860-1949), Poet and Scholar (1906)
• Portrait of Reverend P.S. Dineen (1860-1934), Lexicographer (1905)