Collection: John Butler Yeats

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

John Butler Yeats (1839–1922) drew the faces of the Irish Literary Revival with psychological honesty and a draughtsman's grace: Synge, Lady Gregory, John O'Leary, George Moore, Maud Gonne, and his own children. The National Gallery of Ireland holds 103 works by him. The portraits are irreplaceable documents of a golden era, and paintings of real beauty quite apart from their historical weight.

Browse the full collection of John Butler Yeats art prints on archival 250gsm matte paper, framed or unframed, with free worldwide shipping.

Read the story: he gave up the Bar for painting, drew a whole movement, then sailed to New York at sixty-eight and never came home. John Butler Yeats: the painter who could never finish →

Part of our full Irish Art Prints collection — over 600 works by Ireland's greatest artists.