sentences:  Educated in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the University Philosophical Society, John Butler Yeats began his career as a lawyer and devilled briefly with Isaac Butt before he took up painting in 1867 and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art.There are few records of his sales, so there is no catalogue of his work in private collections.It is possible that some of his early work may have been destroyed by fire in World War II.