Irish art Evie Hone worked in stained glass. Portraitists have included Daniel Maclise, John Lavery, William Orpen (both these War Artists in WWI), John Butler Yeats (father of Jack and William Butler), and Henry Jones Thaddeus. Apart from Francis Bacon, who left Ireland as a young man, the best-known 20th-century Irish artist was Jack Yeats, brother of the poet, also with an individual style that is hard to classify. The art of Seán Keating was poised between Social Realism and Romanticism, and addressed public and political themes in an emerging nation. Irish Modernism began with Mainie Jellett, with later participants being The
William Parsons (poet) William Parsons (poet) William Parsons (died 1828) was an English poet, one of the Della Cruscans. Parsons was one of the coterie who published verse in "The World" in 1784–5, and later called the "Della Cruscans". At that period he was living in Florence, and was on good terms with Hester Piozzi. He was piqued at his exclusion from "The Baviad" (1791), William Gifford's satire on the group, leading to an episode of name-calling. He lived mainly at Bath, Somerset. In November 1787 Parsons was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Other details of his life are scanty. In