1919 - 2001
Born in Dublin, Anne Yeats entered the RHA schools at the age of 13 where she studied for three years. She became a set designer at the Abbey Theatre (1936-40) and began painting full time in 1941. She joined the organizing committee of the IELA in 1947 becoming Secretary for a number of years. Toda...
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1866 - 1949
Lily Yeats, daughter of John Butler Yeats and sister of W.B. and Jack B. Yeats, studied the craft of embroidery in London at the turn of the twentieth century. The skills she learned there were of the highest order as she worked for six years under May Morris who in turn had learned from her father ...
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1871 - 1957
Jack Butler Yeats was born in London but spent most of his childhood with his grandparents in Co. Sligo. Initially self taught, Yeats took classes at various institutions including South Kensington, Westminster, Chiswick Art and West London schools of art. In the late 1880s he began his career as an...
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1839 - 1922
John Butler Yeats was one of Ireland’s finest portrait painters and during a long and productive lifetime, painted many of the leading figures of the Irish Renaissance. Among these were his famous sons, Jack B. Yeats, and the poet William Butler Yeats and writers such as Lady Gregory, AE and Padra...
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