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PORTRAIT OF LILY YEATS AT BEDFORD PARK, LONDON John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922)
Signature: remains of original label on reverse Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: 36 by 29cm., 14 by 11.2 5in. In a 1930s frame from the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin. The Yeats family have long been recognised as outstanding ambassadors for Ireland in the realm of literature and the arts. With a Noble... e Laureate poet, an internationally renowned painter, and two pioneers of the Arts and Crafts movement among their ranks, it might reasonably be said that the family defined the Irish cultural renaissance. As father of this extraordinary family, John Butler Yeats commands attention. Yet as an artist in his own right, he has long been ranked one of the most important portrait painters of his generation. Sarah Purser did much to promote his work when she arranged the joint show of his paintings in 1901 with Nathaniel Hone’s, two artists who, Purser rightly perceived, had been disgracefully neglected by the Academy. The Yeats family moved to Bedford Park in 1879. In a 1930s frame from the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin. The Yeats family have long been recognised as outstanding ambassadors for Ireland in the realm of literature and the arts. With a Noble Laureate poet, an internationally renowned painter, and two pioneers of the Arts and Crafts movement among their ranks, it might reasonably be said that the family defined the Irish cultural renaissance. As father of this extraordinary family, John Butler Yeats commands attention. Yet as an artist in his own right, he has long been ranked one of the most important portrait painters of his generation. Sarah Purser did much to promote his work when she arranged the joint show of his paintings in 1901 with Nathaniel Hone’s, two artists who, Purser rightly perceived, had been disgracefully neglected by the Academy. The Yeats family moved to Bedford Park in 1879 more