John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (born 1839)

John Butler Yeats

Anglo-Irish artist (1839–1922)

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…