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    STRONG BIDDING ON PENCIL PORTRAIT OF W B YEATS BY HIS FATHER

    Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
    JOHN BUTLER YEATS (1839-1922) – William Butler Yeats. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER

    This drawing of the poet W.B. Yeats by his father John Butler Yeats has attracted some competitive bidding at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online sale of Irish art which closes this evening. Estimated at 800-1,200 the small pencil drawing measuring 12″ x 9.4″ originally in the Yeats family collection has so far attracted 48 bids. The current bid on lot 44 stands at 3,000. The catalogue is online.

    YEATS BY YEATS AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL

    Sunday, June 26th, 2022
    JOHN BUTLER YEATS (1839-1922) – Study of Jack B. Yeats. UPDATE: THIS MADE 700 AT HAMMER

    This pencil drawing study of the artist Jack B Yeats by his father the artist John Butler Yeats is lot 4 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online art auction which ends on June 27. Originally from the Yeats family collection, then in a private collection, it is estimated at 700-1,000. The catalogue for the sale is online.

    JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE BY YEATS AT WHYTE’S

    Monday, February 28th, 2022
    JOHN BUTLER YEATS RHA (1839-1922 – PORTRAIT OF JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE. UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,500 AT HAMMER

    This portrait of playwright John Millington Synge by John Butler Yeats comes up as lot 27 at Whyte’s sale of Irish and International art in Dublin on March 7. A key figure in the Gaelic Revival he is best known as author of The Playboy of the Western World and as co-founder with W B Yeats and Lady Gregory of The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Estimated at 8,000-12,000 it is one of a number of works from the collection of Lady Gregory in the auction from artists like John and Jack Yeats, George Russell and Robert Gregory. The sale goes on view at Whyte’s at Molesworth St. in Dublin on March 2.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for February 14, 2022)

    YEATS FAMILY COLLECTION AT FONSIE MEALY

    Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

    Fonsie Mealy will offer a selection of lots from the Yeats family at his auction in Castlecomer on November 14.  There are sketchbooks, furniture including the family bureau, silver, musical instruments and personal effects.  The sale of around 700 lots will feature items from other estates including Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian furniture, stained glass and modern Irish art.  The catalogue is online. Here is a sample.

    JOHN BUTLER YEATS – SELF PORTRAIT (10,000-15,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 13,000 AT HAMMER

    John Butler Yeats – A fine pen-and- ink Portrait of his son W.B. from 1886 (4,000-6,000)  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 21,000 AT HAMMER

    OLD SCANDAL RESURFACES IN YEATS PORTRAIT

    Monday, September 25th, 2017

    John Butler Yeats (1829-1922) – Mrs. Herbert of Muckross with a Maltese terrier

    There is a whiff of scandal around this portrait of Mrs. Herbert of Muckross with a Maltese terrier. It is from the first big commission by John Butler Yeats, to paint members of the Herbert family at Muckross House in Co. Kerry.

    The house had been completely rebuilt in 1843 and the gardens extensively worked for a visit by Queen Victoria in 1861. The portrait was finished in 1873 but shortly afterwards Mrs. Herbert absconded with a lover, never to return to Muckross.

    Her husband refused to take the painting. It ended up in the room of the artists friend Edward Dowden at TCD.  On  his death it was returned to the Yeats family and it is at Sotheby’s sale of the Yeats Family Collection on September 27 with an estimate of £15,000-20,000.  Family tradition has it that the lover was the footman.

    UPDATE:  THIS MADE £43,750 AT HAMMER