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Yeats, Jack Butler

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From: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Date: 20030101
Author:IAN CHILVERS

Yeats, Jack Butler (1871–1957). The best-known Irish painter of the 20th century, son of John Butler Yeats (1839–1922), a barrister who became a successful portrait painter, and brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. Initially he worked mainly as an illustrator and did not regularly paint in oils until about 1905. His subjects included Celtic myth and everyday Irish life, through which he contributed to the upsurge of nationalist feeling in the arts that accompanied the movement for Irish independence. His early paintings were influenced by French Impressionism , ...

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