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John Butler Yeats
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Description
- John Butler Yeats
- Portrait of a Gentleman
- watercolour
- 16.5 by 11.5cm., 6½ by 4½in.
Catalogue Note
The present work may depict J. F. Taylor Q.C. (1850-1902), a member of the Contemporary Club in Dublin (compare with a sketch of Mr Taylor by JBY in Pyle, Yeats, Portrait of an Artistic Family, p.67). William Butler Yeats also met him through the Contemporary Club and recalls an encounter at John O'Leary's house: One constant caller looked at me with much hostility - jealous of my favour in O'Leary's eyes perhaps, though later on he found solider reason for hostility - John F. Taylor, an obscure great orator (quoted in Autobiographies, pp.96-97).