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John Butler Yeats

John Butler Yeats
John Butler Yeats (unknown), Irish, John Butler Yeats is a Irish artist, an enigmatic figure in the world of art. Very little reliable biographical information is available, and much of their creative journey remains lost to time.
Their surviving works speak in quiet tones — suggestive, poetic, and shrouded in mystery.
  • Portrait of Susan Mitchell (1866-1926), Poet (1899)

    Portrait of Susan Mitchell (1866-1926), Poet (1899)

    John Butler Yeats (Irish, unknown)

    Susan Mitchell’s gaze holds steady, her expression poised between thought and speech. The brushstrokes suggest a mind alive with words, a poet caught in the quiet before creation. There’s weight in her stillness—an unspoken verse hovering just beyond the frame.