Jack Butler Yeats


John Jack Butler Yeats was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist. W. B. Yeats was his brother.

Yeats was born in London, England. He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats and the brother of W. B. Yeats, who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. He grew up in Sligo with his maternal grandparents, before returning to his parents home in London in 1887. Early in his career he worked as an illustrator for magazines like the Boys Own Paper and Judy, drew comic strips, including the Sherlock Holmes parody ChubbLock Homes for Comic Cuts, and wrote articles for Punch under the pseudonym W. Bird. In 1894 he married Mary Cottenham, also a native of England and two years his senior, and resided in Wicklow according to the Census of Ireland, 1911.

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