Brief Biography-John Butler Yeats was born in County Down in 1839. He studied law at Trinity College Dublin and became a lawyer in 1866 before taking up painting. Yeats went to London a year later and entered Heatherley’s School of Fine Art and The Royal Academy Schools. He visited Holland in 1889, and when back in England, the pre-Raphaelite style had an impression on him, and he turned to portraiture in 1872. Yeats returned to Ireland in 1780 but was notoriously slow when doing portraits and went back to London to make a living but was lured back to Dublin by Sarah Purser to exhibit his paintings in 1901. He painted many works in Dublin; however, in 1908, he travelled to New York, where he enjoyed a relatively successful livelihood painting and writing. He died in New York in 1922. His children all thrived in the arts. William Butler Yeats, the poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Susan Mary Lily Yeats embroidered pictures. Elizabeth Corbet Yeats was an art teacher and writer, and Jack Butler Yeats became a successful painter.