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 Falconer (poet) as a motto for "Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in de jaren 1596 en 1597" (1820) by the Dutch poet Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856). William Falconer (poet) William Falconer (21 February 1732 – December 1769) was a Scottish epic poet concerned mainly with life at sea. He also compiled a dictionary of marine matters. Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born, became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of which are described in his poem, "The Shipwreck" (1762),