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Artist: John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922) Title: Self Portrait (1902) Signature: signed lower left and dated 1902 Medium: pencil drawing Size: 17.80 x 13cm (7 x 5.1in) Framed Size: 45.3 x 41.1cm (17.8 x 16.2in) Provenance: Collection of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats; Private Collection a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Although small in scale, this pencil self-portrait captures accurately the appearance of John Butler Yeats, father of the painter Jack Yeats, the poet W. B. Yeats, and Elizabeth and Susan Yeats who managed the Cuala Press. The son of a Church of Ireland rector, John Butler Yeats was born in 1839 in ... Read more John Butler Yeats Lot 10 - 'Self Portrait (1902)' Estimate: €1,000 - €1,500 Although small in scale, this pencil self-portrait captures accurately the appearance of John Butler Yeats, father of the painter Jack Yeats, the poet W. B. Yeats, and Elizabeth and Susan Yeats who managed the Cuala Press. The son of a Church of Ireland rector, John Butler Yeats was born in 1839 in Co. Down. After attending Atholl Academy in 1857, he initially studied law in Dublin, but decided to move with his wife and family to London, where he wanted to study art. Over the following years, Yeats moved back and forth between London and Dublin, struggling to establish himself as a portrait painter. The American lawyer and patron John Quinn helped him to settle in Dublin, and in 1901 he had a joint exhibition with Nathaniel Hone The following year, Hugh Lane commissioned Yeats to paint a series of portraits of people influential in the Irish literary revival. After travelling to New York in 1908, on a trip sponsored by Quinn, Yeats decided to settle in Manhattan. Befriending artists Robert Henri and John Sloan he lived and worked happily enough in New York until his death, on 2nd February 1922, in the town of Chesterton, New York. Peter Murray, January 2022