WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 2 December 2019

34 20 John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922) NELLY WHELAN READING pencil inscribed [Nelly Whelan] lower right 4.75 by 8.25in. (12.1 by 21cm) Provenance: Family of the artist; Fonsie Mealy Chatsworth Sale, The Yeats Collection, 14 November 2017, ex lot 616; Private collection Exhibited: ‘The Drawings of John Butler Yeats’, Albany Institute of History & Art, New York, 11 April to 31 May 1987, catalogue no. 16 Literature: Cullen, Finton, The Drawings of John Butler Yeats (1839-1922), Lane Press, New York, 1987, p. 40 (illustrat- ed) With pencil sketch of young man on reverse. €1,000-€1,500 (£860-£1,290 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 20