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 Harrison (poet) William Harrison (poet) William Harrison (1685–1713) was an English poet and diplomat. He was admitted scholar of Winchester College in 1698, coming from the neighbouring parish of St. Cross, aged 13. In 1704, he was elected to a scholarship at New College, Oxford, and after two years of probation succeeded to a fellowship in 1706. Joseph Addison became his friend, and obtained for him the post of governor to a son of the Duke of Queensberry at a salary of £40 a year. With this and his fellowship, which he retained for his life, Harrison plunged into London society. Harrison