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 Thom (poet) county, Scotland, and interred on 3 March. His most notable work is "Blind Boy's Pranks". In 1841 he published "Rhymes and Recollections of a Handloom Weaver". A biography of William Thom appears in the book, "James Hogg" by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1899) in the "Famous Scots Series". William Thom's remains are interred at Western Cemetery, Dundee, where a memorial monument was erected by admirers of the poet. William Thom (poet) William Thom (1788 - 29 February 1848) was a Scottish poet who wrote in the Scots language. He was author of "The Mitherless Bairn" and