John Butler Yeats

**John Butler Yeats** (16 ta' Marzu 1839 – 3 ta' Frar 1922) kien artist Irlandiż u missier William Butler Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lolly" Yeats u Jack B. Yeats. In-National Gallery of Ireland għandha numru ta’ ritratti tiegħu biż-żejt u xogħlijiet fuq il-karta, inkluż wieħed mir-ritratti tiegħu ta’ ibnu William, impitter fl-1900. Ir-ritratt tiegħu ta' John O'Leary (1904) huwa meqjus bħala l-kapulavur tiegħu.

## Karriera
Yeats twieled f’Lawrencetown, belt ta’ Tullylish, County Down. Il-ġenituri tiegħu kienu William Butler Yeats (1806-1862) u Jane Grace Corbert; John Butler Yeats kien l-ikbar minn disa' ulied. Edukat fit-Trinity College Dublin u membru tas-Soċjetà Filosofika tal-Università, John Butler Yeats beda l-karriera tiegħu bħala avukat u ħadem ma’ Isaac Butt qabel ma beda jpitter fl-1867 u studja fil-Heatherley School of Fine Art . Ftit li xejn m'hemm iddokumentat dwar il-bejgħ tiegħu, allura m'hemm l-ebda katalgu tax-xogħol tiegħu f'kollezzjonijiet privati. Huwa possibbli li wħud mix-xogħlijiet bikrin tiegħu setgħu nħarqu fit-Tieni Gwerra Dinjija. Huwa ma kellu l-ebda diffikultà jikseb kummissjonijiet; dan jidher ċar mit-tpinġijiet u l-pitturi biż-żejt tiegħu li jinstabu fi djar privati fl-Irlanda, l-Ingilterra u l-Amerika. L-aħħar ritratti tiegħu juru sensittività kbira għas-suġġett tagħhom. Madankollu, huwa ma kellux sens ta' negozju u qatt ma kien finanzjarjament stabbli matul ħajtu. Huwa spiss biddel fejn joqgħod u ċċaqlaq diversi drabi bejn l-Ingilterra u l-Irlanda.

Fl-1907, fl-età ta’ 68 sena, huwa vvjaġġa lejn New York abbord l-*RMS Campania ,* ma’ bintu Lily, u qatt ma reġa' lura lejn l-Irlanda. F'Ottubru 1909 huwa mar jgħix fid-dar immexxija mis-sorijiet Petitpas li kienet tinsab fi 317 West 29th Street. Fi New York, kellu ħbiberija mal-membri tal-iskola tal-pitturi Ashcan. Huwa miet fid-dar tas-sorijiet fit-3 ta' Frar 1922. Edmund Quinn għamel maskra tal-mewt fuqu u din issa tinsab fil-kollezzjoni tal-Yeats Society f'Sligo. John Butler Yeats jinsab midfun fiċ-Ċimiterju Rurali ta' Chestertown f’Chestertown, New York, ħdejn il-ħabiba tiegħu, Jeanne Robert Foster.

## Familja
Yeats iżżeweġ lil Susan Pollexfen (13 ta' Lulju 1841 – 3 ta' Jannar 1900) fl-10 ta' Settembru 1863 fil-Knisja ta' San Ġwann, Sligo. Susan Yeats kienet iddiżappuntata ħafna meta żewġha abbanduna l-istudju tal-liġi biex isir artist. Susan hija deskritta bħala "figura dellija" li "sfortunatament, iġennet bil-mod".

John u Susan kellhom sitt itfal: William Butler Yeats; Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats; Elizabeth Corbett "Lolly" Yeats; Robert Corbet Yeats; John "Jack" Butler Yeats; u Jane Grace Yeats. 

## Sorsi
* Douglas N. Archibald (1974), *John Butler Yeats* Bucknell University Press-Irish Writers Series.
* Martyn Anglesea (2003), *Yeats, John Butler* in Brian Lalor (Ed.) *The Encyclopedia of Ireland*. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. &nbsp;.
* Bruce Arnold (1977), *Irish Art, a concise history*. London: Thames and Hudson. &nbsp;.
* Robert Gordon (1978), *John Butler Yeats and John Sloan the records of a friendship*. The Dolmen Press New Yeats Papers XIV Dublin.
* Declan J Foley (2009), editor, *Letters of John Butler Yeats to his son Jack B. Yeats*. Lilliput Press Dublin .
* Joseph Hone, editor (1944), *J.B.Yeats Letters to his son W. B. Yeats and Others 1969-1922*, Faber and Faber, 1 & 2 eds., republished Martin Secker and Waburg Ltd, (1983). Abridged and with an Introduction by John McGahern. (London): Faber, (1999).
* Raymond Keaveney (2002), *National Gallery of Ireland, Essential Guide*. London: Scala. &nbsp;.
* Janis Londraville, editor, (2003) *Prodigal Father Revisited: Artists and writers in the World of John Butler Yeats*, Locust Hill Press, includes papers from first John Butler Yeats Seminar, Chestertown 2001.
* William M. Murphy (1978), *Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats, 1839–1922*,  published by Cornell University Press.  Paperback 1979, and reprinted in paperback with some new material in 2001 by Syracuse University Press.
* William M. Murphy (1995), *Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives* Syracuse University Press, 1995.
* William M. Murphy (1971), *The Yeats Family and the Pollexfens of Sligo* (Dublin:Dolmen).
* William M. Murphy; Fintan Cullen, eds.(1987), *The Drawings of John Butler Yeats*. (Albany, New York: Albany Institute of History and Art, and Union College, Departments of Art and English).
* William M Murphy (1995), *Family Secrets William Butler Yeats and His Relatives*. Syracuse UP.
* Robert Gordon (1978), *John Butler Yeats and John Sloan: The Record of a Friendship*. The Dolmen Press New Yeats Papers XIV Dublin.
* Lennox Robinson, editor (1920), *Further Letters of John Butler Yeats*: Selected by Lennox Robinson, The Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, County Dublin.
* Yeats John Butler (1918), *Essays Irish and American*, (with an appreciation by AE) Talbot Press Dublin/T Fisher Unwin London. *Early Memories: Some Chapters of Autobiography* (1923) The Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum County Dublin.
* *Passages From The Letters of John Butler Yeats: 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.

## Ħoloq esterni
* Yeats Society Sligo
* Boston College collection of Yeats family papers at John J. Burns Library, Boston College

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