John Butler Yeats [SEP] educated at
Lawrencetown, townland of Tullylish, County Down. His parents were William Butler Yeats (1806–1862) and Jane Grace Corbert; John Butler Yeats was the eldest of nine children. Educated in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the University Philosophical Society, John Butler Yeats began his career as a lawyer and devilled briefly with Isaac Butt before he took up painting in 1867 and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art. There are few records of his sales, so there is no catalogue of his work in private collections. It
: Selected by Ezra Pound" (1917). The Cuala Press Churchtown, Dundrum, County Dublin
- James White (1972), "John Butler Yeats and The Irish Renaissance with pictures from the collection of Michael Butler Yeats and from The National Gallery of Ireland". The Dolmen Press Dublin.
External links.
- Yeats Society Sligo
- Boston College collection of Yeats family papers at John J. Burns Library, Boston College