Jack B. Yeats
, Irish, 1871-1957
Title
A ClericDate1913
MediumOil on board
Dimensions
36.3 x 23.3 cm
Signedlower right: Jack B. Yeats
Credit LinePresented, the Executors of the late Mr W. Cadbury, 1966
Object numberNGI.1804
ProvenancePurchased, William A. Cadbury, 1917; presented, Executors of William A. Cadbury, 1966Exhibition HistoryTheatre Exhibition, Birmingham, 1917Jack B. Yeats in the National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1986
Images in Yeats, Centre de Congres, Monaco; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1990
Label TextThis is one of twelve oil paintings of Irish types Yeats produced as illustrations for Irishmen All by George A. Birmingham (1913), the pseudonym of Canon James Owen Hannay, a Church of Ireland priest. Unlike his humorous novels about Irish life, Birmingham’s Irishmen All was a serious book, which addressed officialdom and the major and minor professions in a satirical but not unkind way. Yeats had already demonstrated his own interest in such subject matter in his book of drawings Life in the West of Ireland, published in 1912.