Self Portrait
Date: 1916 Dimensions: 26 × 35cm Medium: Oil on board Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A Healy in 1965 (John & Catherine Healy Memorial Collection) Description This small oil painting is a preparatory work for John Butler Yeats’s Self-Portrait which he worked on for the last eleven years
Portrait of Susan Mary (Lily) Yeats
Date: 1908 Dimensions: 23.5 × 32cm Medium: Pencil Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented from the estate of Jack B Yeats, to Sligo Corporation in 1957
Portrait of Augusta Gregory
Date: 1903 Dimensions: 22.5 × 29.5cm Medium: Pencil Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A Healy in 1965 (John & Catherine Healy Memorial Collection).
Portrait of John O’Leary
Date: c. 1900 Dimensions: 11 × 16.5cm Medium: Pencil Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A. Healy in New York to Sligo County Library and Museum. In memory of his parents, John and Catherine Healy, 1966. Description John O’Leary was a favorite subject of John Butler Yeats. The National
Portrait of Susan Mitchell
Date: 1897 Dimensions: 11.5 × 15.5cm Medium: Pencil Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Gift from Ms V Franklin in 1959 Description This drawing was made while Susan Mitchell (1866-1926) was living as a paying guest and companion to Lily Yeats at the Yeats family home in Bedford Park in London. The
Portrait of Jennie Mitchell
Date: 1892 Dimensions: 15.5 × 21cm Medium: Pencil Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Gift of Mrs. V. Franklin in 1959 Description Jennie Mitchell was the younger sister of Susan Mitchell, the poet and writer whose portrait John B. Yeats later painted. Jennie got to know the Yeats family several years before