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 Duke (artist) William Duke (artist) William Charles Duke (1814 – 17 October 1853) was an Irish-born Australian artist remembered primarily for his portraits of several Māori leaders, and as a "journeyman painter of lively marine oil paintings of whaling, commissioned by Hobart shipowners". William Charles Duke was born in Cork, to Catherine, wife of carpenter Charles Duke. He was baptised on 16 July 1815 in St Anne, Shannon, and followed his father into carpentry. Duke married dressmaker Lucy on 16 February 1840, and together they undertook assisted migration to Australia, arriving in Sydney with their son Charles, born on the voyage, aboard