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Artist: John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922) Title: Mary 'Cottie' Yeats (c.1903-4) Signature: titled Medium: pencil drawing Size: 22 x 15½cm (8.7 x 6.1in) Framed Size: 50.2 x 43.5cm (19.8 x 17.1in) Provenance: Yeats Family Collection; Sotheby's, London, Irish Art Sale; Private Collection Exhibited: New York, Albany Institute of History & Art, The Drawings of John Butler Yeats, 11 April - 31 May 1987, no.23, illustrated Literature: William Murphy Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1978, illustrated p.178; William Murphy Family Secrets, William Butler Yeats and his Relatives, Syracuse University Press, New York, 1995, fig.78, p.283 a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} When the Yeats family moved to London in 1887, Jack attended art school and there he met Mary Cottenham Whyte. Jack's sister recalled how 'Jack...found himself sitting next to a fellow-student, pleasing to the eye and of sympathetic outlook. He used to return home to receive his father's periodic en... Read more When the Yeats family moved to London in 1887, Jack attended art school and there he met Mary Cottenham Whyte. Jack's sister recalled how 'Jack...found himself sitting next to a fellow-student, pleasing to the eye and of sympathetic outlook. He used to return home to receive his father's periodic enquiry,"And how is Dottie?" Cottie, not Dottie, please, Father." It was a long time before his parent could get it right.' (quote in Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, 1989, p.38). In 1892, Jack got engaged to Cottie. He then worked as an illustrator in Manchester for two years in order to raise enough money to marry her. After 13 years in Devon they settled in Dublin.