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Abstract YEATS,Jack Butler (1871-1957), painter and author. Born in London, the youngest child of John Butler *Yeats and brother of W. B. *Yeats, he grew up mainly in Sligo, was tutored privately, and attended art schools in London. He worked first in Manchester as an illustrator and moved to Dart mouth in 1897. He became a friend of]. M. *Synge, with whom he shared walking tours in the west of Ireland, leading to a joint commission to produce a series of articles on the congested districts for the Manchester Guardian (1905), which furnished the illustrations later used for Synge’s The *Aran Islands (1907). His Life in the West of Ireland (1912), and his illustrations for George *Birmingham’s Irishmen All (1913), exemplified his humorous yet romantic attimde to Irish rural life. Heremrned to live in Ireland in 1910, first at Greystones, Co. Wicklow, then in Dublin. Yeats began working consistently in oil from 1905, the firm outline of his drawings giving way to swirling expressionism and increasingly brilliant colours. The mystical atmosphere of his later canvases reflects a conviction that ‘we are embedded in time and floating in eternity’.