Yeats, John Butler

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Who is John Butler Yeats?

Self-Portrait (1907)

National Library of Ireland

John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) painted this watercolor around the time he made pictures of George Moore, listed elsewhere in this Iconography. Moore moved to Dublin from London at the turn of the century in order to participate, as a writer and advocate, in an Irish cultural revival with John’s son William and others.

John Butler Yeats purportedly described Moore as “the most stimulating mind I ever met.”