John Butler Yeats, Irish, 1839-1922
Title: Dr Douglas Hyde (1860-1949), Scholar and First President of Ireland
Date: 1898
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
31.7 x 25.1 cm
Signed: centre left: JBY/1895
Credit Line: Purchased, 1932
Object Number: NGI.2947
DescriptionIn 1893, Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill founded the Gaelic League. Its purpose was to revive the Irish language and preserve Irish literature, music and traditional culture. Both Hyde and JBY came from clerical families, studied at Trinity College, and were members of the Dublin Contemporary Club, which supported Home Rule. This drawing belongs to a series commissioned by Hyde’s aunt Lady Gregory. Yeats painted two oils of Hyde, whom he found to be an impatient sitter, one for Hugh Lane (1903; Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane) and the other for John Quinn. (1906; NGI.874)
ProvenancePurchased, Coole Park, Lady Gregory Sale, 1932
Exhibition HistoryLoan Collection of Pictures by Nathaniel Hone, R.H.A. and John Butler Yeats, R.H.A., no. 6 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, 1901
W.B. Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1965
Paintings and Drawings by John Butler Yeats from the Collection of Senator Michael B. Yeats and the National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1972
At a Glance - Portraits by John Butler Yeats, National Gallery of Ireland, 24 October 2015 - 17 January 2016
W.B. Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1965
Paintings and Drawings by John Butler Yeats from the Collection of Senator Michael B. Yeats and the National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1972
At a Glance - Portraits by John Butler Yeats, National Gallery of Ireland, 24 October 2015 - 17 January 2016
Label TextIn 1893, Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill founded the Gaelic League. Its purpose was to revive the Irish language and preserve Irish literature, music and traditional culture. Both Hyde and JBY came from clerical families, studied at Trinity College, and were members of the Dublin Contemporary Club, which supported Home Rule. This drawing belongs to a series commissioned by Hyde’s aunt Lady Gregory. Yeats painted two oils of Hyde, whom he found to be an impatient sitter, one for Hugh Lane (1903; Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane) and the other for John Quinn. (1906; NGI.874)