Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Evening - Ink on Paper

Jack B Yeats was born at 23 Fitzroy Road, Regents Park, London, on the 29^th of August, 1871. He was the youngest son of the Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats. Yeats was well known for painting Irish landscapes aswell as horses and travelling players.  While his early paintings and drawings used quite simple line and colour, his later paintings became very vigorous and he became quite experimental, thickly applying paint and often abandoning the brush altogether. Yeats also had an interest in the theatre and literature, he designed sets for the Abbey Theatre and three of his own plays were also produced there. Yeats was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1916. He died in Dublin in 1957.