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 Woodward (artist) William Woodward (artist) William Woodward (May 1, 1859 – November 17, 1939) was a U.S. artist and educator, best known for his impressionist paintings of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of the United States. William Woodward was born on May 1, 1859 in Seekonk, Massachusetts. His younger brother Ellsworth Woodward also became a notable artist. As a youth, he was accustomed to the rural landscape and the close proximity of family and relatives. His family was supportive of his interest in art, an interest he attributed to an uncle, his mother's brother, who had been killed in the American