A Glimpse of Britain and Ireland (94) – National Gallery of Ireland (III)

From the upper floor of the gallery, you can overlook the middle courtyard of the exhibition hall

As soon as I entered the museum, I seized the time to keep patting and patting, and only during the "transfer" period did I remember that I should take a souvenir photo of my daughter.

Hall 14 was named the Yeats Room, all of which were paintings by Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957). The painter was the younger brother of the Irish poet and 1923 Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Their father was a portrait painter, which created a relaxed artistic atmosphere for the family, and in addition to the eldest becoming a writer and the fourth becoming a painter, the two and three were daughters, one became an embroiderer and the other became a publisher, and they were all related to art and literature.

William John Leech (1881–1968) was another Dublin-born painter who also studied at the Metropolitan School of Art and was later admitted to the Royal Irish Academy of Art under Walter Osborne. At the age of 22, Leach went to France to study painting and became fascinated by the idyllic scenery of France. The Gardens of the Convent of Brittany, painted in 1913, features Elizabeth Saurin, Leach's first wife. Dressed in traditional Bridal attire in Brittany, she strolled through the monastery gardens with a prayer book in her hand. Leach met Elizabeth, who was also a painter during his recuperation in the monastery's hospital, but the two broke up after two years of marriage. This painting is also listed on the official website of the museum as one of the 16 works that focus on it.