WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 26 FEBRUARY 2018

23 John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922) “HARVEY” pencil on card inscribed “Harvey” lower right 11.25 by 9in. (28.6 by 22.9cm) Provenance: Collection of Lady Gregory, Coole Park; Private collection The likely sitter is Sir Henry Paul Harvey (1869-1948) knighted in 1911, editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1932), and the Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (1937). Henry Paul Harvey Durant (1869-1948) was the illegitimate child of the French sculptor Henri Triqueti and the English sculptor Susan Durant. After his mother died, he was brought up by Blanche Lee Childe, variously described as his aunt or his half-sister, and when Childe also died in 1886, he was sponsored by Augusta, Lady Gregory with help from Henry James. He spent some time at Coole where he would have met Yeats. €1,500-€2,000 (£1,070-£1,430 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 23