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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Yeats, John Butler
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Description area
Dates of existence
1839-1922
History
John Butler Yeats was born in Ireland in 1839. He worked briefly as a lawyer before becoming an artist and painter in 1867. In 1907 he moved to America and passed away in 1922. He was also the father of poet William Butler Yeats.