# Jack Butler Yeats artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1871-08-29
- Death date: 1957-03-28
- Nationality: Irish
- Movements: Expressionism, French Impressionism influence, Irish nationalist arts context
- Common media: Oil painting, Illustration, Works on paper and prints

## Portrait

![Jack Butler Yeats](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Jack_Butler_Yeats.jpg/1280px-Jack_Butler_Yeats.jpg)
Alice Boughton · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jack_Butler_Yeats.jpg

## About Jack Butler Yeats

Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957) was an Irish painter, illustrator, and writer whose career moved from illustration into a distinctive form of modern painting. He began as an illustrator and did not regularly work in oils until about 1905. His early paintings show the influence of French Impressionism, while his mature work is associated with vivid colour, loose brushwork, and an Expressionistic approach. Yeats frequently drew on Celtic myth and scenes of everyday Irish life, linking personal observation with the cultural atmosphere of Ireland during the movement toward independence. He was the son of painter John Butler Yeats and the brother of poet William Butler Yeats, but his own reputation rests on a substantial body of paintings, illustrations, writings, and works on paper. Collectors encounter Jack B. Yeats in both museum and auction contexts, where the period, medium, subject, condition, provenance, and attribution of an individual work require close attention.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal records may include oil paintings, illustrations, drawings, prints, and other works on paper. Subjects associated with Yeats include Celtic mythology and everyday Irish life. Collectors may also encounter works connected with his literary and illustrative practice, as well as related mixed-media, decorative-art, or edition records in broader market databases. Identifying the medium, date, subject, dimensions, signature, edition information, provenance, and condition is important when selecting comparable works.

## Market and appraisal context

Jack Butler Yeats appears in public auction records across paintings, works on paper and prints, and related mixed-media or edition categories. Appraisily’s market page reports a broad observed record set, but those results should be compared only with genuinely similar works. Medium, size, date, career period, condition, restoration, surface quality, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, subject matter, and attribution confidence can all affect appraisal. Recent comparable sales may provide useful context, while private transactions, incomplete auction feeds, buyer premiums, and changes in attribution can limit direct comparisons. A public sale result is evidence for research, not a guaranteed value for a particular work.

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## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/yeats-jack-butler-18711957
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jack-butler-yeats-2178
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/49340985/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500002320
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q560488
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/034918876
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jack-butler-yeats/