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John Butler Yeats RHA (1859-1922) In a Gondola Gouache, 33 x 47cm (13 x 18.5'') Signed and extensively inscribed on artist's label verso Provenance: Inherited by the current owner Exhibited : 1901 Hone - Yeats Loan Exhibition in Dubin Literature: ''The prodigal Father'' by William Murphy P116 and P232 This is one of two works that the poet Dr John Todhunter commissioned from John Butler Yeats based on Brownings series of narrative poems ''Bells and pomegranates''. The first commission was given in 1870 ''Pippa Passes'' and is now in the Collection of The National Gallery of Ireland (Ref 3531). Brownings poems tell how a girl from Asolo spends her New Years holiday passing through the lives of others ,passing through their lives,imagining herself into their situations and so influencing them. It took 2 years for the first commission to reach Todhunter. Yeats met and made a lifelong friendship with the John Todhunter while at Trinity College (1857 - 62) . Todhunter was a gifted dilettante who started life in a grocery firm but then decided to become a Doctor and through his interest in music,poetry and philosophy brought him into the company of John. At the time of painting this picture Yeats was sharing a studio with Edwin Ellis at. No. 74 Newman Strret,London near J.T. Nettleship - a member of the informal artistic brotherhood they had set up who recently published a collection of essays on Browning's poetry. The brotherhood declared a common interest in Blake,Browning and the Pre-Raphaelite ideals as well as a belief in the solitary nature of the artist. Browning saw ''Pippa Passes'' at Todhunters and called on Yeats,who was out and never returned Brownings call. It had also been admired by Rossetti who invited Yeats to visit but again Yeats due to the awe in which he held Rossetti never took up the invitation. The model for Pippa in both this work and ''Pippa Passes'' has been identified as Nelly Whelan. This later work was also in Todhunters possession when Browning called and Todhunter lent both to the very successful 1901 Hone-Yeats exhibition that was organized by Sarah Purser and included 44 works by John Butler Yeats and 28 works by Hone. There is a label verso inscribed with a stanza from Robert Browning's In a Gondola ''Care no for the coward, care only to put aside thy beauteous hair, my blood will hurt'' John Butler Yeats RHA (1859-1922) In a Gondola Gouache, 33 x 47cm (13 x 18.5'') Signed and extensively inscribed on artist's label verso Provenance: Inherited by the current owner Exhibited : 1901 Hone - Yeats Loan Exhibition in Dubin Literature: ''The prodigal Father'' by William Murphy P116 and P232 This is one of two works that the poet Dr John Todhunter commissioned from John Butler Yeats based on Brownings series of narrative poems ''Bells and pomegranates''. The first commission was given in 1870 ''Pippa Passes'' and is now in the Collection of The National Gallery of Ireland (Ref 3531). Brownings poems tell how a girl from Asolo spends her New Years holiday passing through the lives of others ,passing through their lives,imagining herself into their situations and so influencing them. It took 2 years for the first commission to reach Todhunter. Yeats met and made a lifelong friendship with the John Todhunter while at Trinity College (1857 - 62) . Todhunter was a gifted dilettante who started life in a grocery firm but then decided to become a Doctor and through his interest in music,poetry and philosophy brought him into the company of John. At the time of painting this picture Yeats was sharing a studio with Edwin Ellis at. No. 74 Newman Strret,London near J.T. Nettleship - a member of the informal artistic brotherhood they had set up who recently published a collection of essays on Browning's poetry. The brotherhood declared a common interest in Blake,Browning and the Pre-Raphaelite ideals as well as a belief in the solitary nature of the artist. Browning saw ''Pippa Passes'' at Todhunters and called on