W.B. Yeats
(1865-1939), Poet and dramatist; son of John Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats
Sitter in 59 portraits
Poet and dramatist of Irish origin, son of the artist J.B. Yeats. Yeats was prominent in both English and Irish literary circles and played a large part in the revival of Celtic literature and the Irish theatre; helped to establish the Abbey Theatre in Dublin as a national institution and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1923). A poet of expressive force and lyrical beauty whose work underwent profound development between The Celtic Twilight (1893) and The Winding Stair (1929). His 'Easter 1916' (1916) and 'An Irishman Foresees his Death' (1919) offer an unusual perspective on the First World War- a conflict that bitterly divided his own country. Senator, Irish Free State (1922-8).
Sir Hugh Percy Lane; John Millington Synge; W.B. Yeats; Augusta, Lady Gregory
by Sir William Orpen
pen and ink, 1907
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by Augustus John
etching, 1907
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by Kathleen Scott
plaster cast of mask, 1907
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by Kathleen Scott
bronze head, 1955, based on a work of 1907
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by Augustus John
pencil and wash, circa 1907
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by Ivan Opffer
chalk, 1935?
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by Alvin Langdon Coburn
photogravure, 24 January 1908
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by Alvin Langdon Coburn
photogravure, 24 January 1908
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by George Charles Beresford
sepia-toned platinotype, 15 July 1911
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by George Charles Beresford
dry-plate glass negative, 15 July 1911
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W.B. Yeats; Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1920
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W.B. Yeats; Marc Allégret; André Gide
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1920
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W.B. Yeats; Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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W.B. Yeats; Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty; W.B. Yeats; Lady Margaret Sackville and an unknown man
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 15-16 July 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 15-16 July 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 15-16 July 1924
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Philip and Julian Morrell with friends at Garsington
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Summer 1930
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Walter de la Mare; Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees); W.B. Yeats and an unknown woman
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Summer 1930
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W.B. Yeats; Walter de la Mare and others
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Summer 1930
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Summer 1930
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1930
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What can we talk about (Lytton Strachey; W.B. Yeats)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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'Lytton agrees and admires' (Lytton Strachey; W.B. Yeats)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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'Lytton agrees and admires' (Lytton Strachey; W.B. Yeats)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
snapshot print enlargement, 1931
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
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W.B. Yeats; Dorothy Violet Wellesley (née Ashton), Duchess of Wellington
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
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W.B. Yeats; Dorothy Violet Wellesley (née Ashton), Duchess of Wellington
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
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by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1935
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by Howard Coster
print, 1935
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by Howard Coster
print, 1935
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by Howard Coster
print, 1935
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by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1935
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by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, 1 January 1935
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by Howard Coster
vintage bromide print, 1935
NPG x1962
'W.B. Yeats in his garden in Ireland'
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
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by William Rothenstein
lithograph, published 1899 (1898)
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by William Rothenstein
lithograph, published 1899 (1898)
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