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 Bathe (Irish judge) William Bathe (Irish judge) Sir William Bathe (c.1530-1597) was an Irish judge and landowner. He is commemorated by the Wayside Cross (also known as the Dowdall Cross) in Duleek, which was erected by his widow Janet Dowdall. He should not be confused with his much younger cousin William Bathe of Drumcondra Castle, who was a Jesuit and noted musicologist. William was the elder son of John Bathe, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas; little seems to be known about his mother. The Bathes were a long established family which settled in County Meath, and had several branches in Meath