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John Butler Yeats
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- John Butler Yeats
- Mrs John Butler Yeats
- dated l.r.: 1867
- pen and ink
- 27 by 18cm., 10½ by 7in.
together with a watercolour of Isabella Varley (née Pollexfen, sister of Susan Yeats) by John Butler Yeats, with poem Newborn Death (1870) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti inscribed on the reverse
Exhibited
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Paintings and Drawings by John Butler Yeats, 1972, no.11
Catalogue Note
When the Yeats' took up lodgings at 23 Fitzroy Road in London, Ford Madox Brown and his family were neighbours. Madox Brown's son Oliver fell in love with Mrs Yeats' sister, Isabella, who would often visit. However, the relationship never developed further as Oliver died young in 1874.