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 Johnstone (artist) William Johnstone (artist) William Johnstone OBE (1897–1981) was a Scottish artist and writer, and was the Principal of Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1947–1960. Johnstone was born in 1897 in Denholm in the Scottish Borders and grew up to a farming family. After the First World War he gave up the life of a farmer to go to Edinburgh College of Art. Here he met the poet Hugh MacDiarmid who shared many of his political and artistic ideals. Together they formed the concept of the Scottish Renaissance to release the nation from its cultural poverty under a centralised