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 Mercer (poet) musical side to his interests makes it likely that he was the 'William Merser, musician' who was admitted a burgess of Edinburgh in 1631 (Wood, 3.95). His first poetic work, "A Description of the Creation" (1632), a miscellany, included fulsome praise for Edinburgh's magistrates." He fought for the Protestant cause in the Irish Rebellion of 1641, a conflict in which his brother Robert, a Presbyterian minister, and his family were killed, but left Ireland to join the Parliamentary side in the First English Civil War. He was commissioned as a captain in the parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex,