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Jack Butler Yeats

1871 - 1957

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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist. Born into a family of impoverished Anglo-Irish landholders, his father was the painter John Butler Yeats, and his brother was the poet W. B. Yeats. Jack B. was born in London but was raised in County Sligo with his maternal grandparents, before returning to London in 1887 to live with his parents. Afterwards he travelled frequently between the two countries; while in Ireland he lived mainly in Greystones, County Wicklow and in Dublin city. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Butler Yeats is the 668th most popular painter (up from 1,934th in 2019), the 1,549th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,932nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jack Butler Yeats ranks 668 out of 2,023. Before him are Bartholomeus van der Helst, Jan Toorop, Leonid Pasternak, Jannis Kounellis, Cindy Sherman, and Nicolas de Staël. After him are Juan Sánchez Cotán, Achille Devéria, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Mikhail Nesterov, Bartolomeo Manfredi, and Anton Graff.

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Among people born in 1871, Jack Butler Yeats ranks 41. Before him are Sergei Bulgakov, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Walter Bradford Cannon, Gerardo Machado, Christian Morgenstern, and Zhang Jinghui. After him are Alajos Szokolyi, William McDougall, Meletius IV of Constantinople, Stephen Crane, Fritz Hofmann, and Hanns Heinz Ewers. Among people deceased in 1957, Jack Butler Yeats ranks 73. Before him are Joseph Augustus Zarelli, Théophile de Donder, Malcolm Lowry, Theodor Körner, James Brendan Connolly, and Eugenio Castellotti. After him are Soemu Toyoda, Josef Lada, Shūmei Ōkawa, Álvaro Gestido, Rudolf Schmidt, and Dorothy L. Sayers.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Butler Yeats ranks 1,549 out of 8,785. Before him are Tom Pryce (1949), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), Henry Gray (1827), Idris Elba (1972), Herbert Chapman (1878), and Jeremy Hunt (1966). After him are Robert Adam (1728), Havelock Ellis (1859), Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623), Robert Stephenson (1803), Jack Bruce (1943), and George Cayley (1773).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Jack Butler Yeats ranks 20. Before him are John Tenniel (1820), Richard Hamilton (1922), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), Thomas Lawrence (1769), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), and Edmund Leighton (1852). After him are Thomas Cole (1801), John Martin (1789), George Stubbs (1724), John William Godward (1861), Arthur Rackham (1867), and James Gillray (1756).

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