Joseph Noel Paton

{"Id":335,"Name":"Joseph Noel Paton","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EPATON, SIR JOSEPH NOEL (1821-1901),\u003C/strong\u003E British painter, was born, on the 13th of December 1821, in Woolers Alley, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunfermline\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EDunfermline\u003C/a\u003E, where his father, a fellow of the Scottish \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.socantscot.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESociety of Antiquaries\u003C/a\u003E, carried on the trade of a damask manufacturer. He showed strong artistic inclinations in early childhood, but had no regular art training, except a brief period of study in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/royacad.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ERoyal Academy School\u003C/a\u003E in 1843. He gained a prize of 200 in the first Westminster Hall competition, in 1845, for his cartoon \u003Cu\u003EThe Spirit of Religion\u003C/u\u003E, and in the following year he exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy his \u003Cu\u003EQuarrel of Oberon and Titania\u003C/u\u003E. A companion fairy picture, \u003Cu\u003EThe Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania\u003C/u\u003E went to Westminster Hall in 1847, and for it and his picture of \u003Cu\u003EChrist bearing the Cross\u003C/u\u003E he was awarded a prize of 300 by the Fine Arts Commissioners. The two Oberon pictures are in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.natgalscot.ac.uk/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ENational Gallery\u003C/a\u003E of Scotland, where they have long been a centre of attraction. His first exhibited picture, \u003Cu\u003ERuth Gleaning\u003C/u\u003E, appeared at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1844. He began to contribute to the Royal Academy of London in 1856. Throughout his career his preference was for allegorical, fairy and religious subjects. Among his most famous pictures are \u003Cu\u003EThe Pursuit of Pleasure\u003C/u\u003E (1855), \u003Cu\u003EMors Janua Vitae\u003C/u\u003E (1866), \u003Cu\u003EOskold and the Ell-maids\u003C/u\u003E (1874), and \u003Cu\u003EIn Die Malo\u003C/u\u003E (1882). Sir Noel Paton also produced a certain amount of sculpture, more notable for design than for searching execution. He was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1847, and a full member in 1850; he was appointed Queen\u0027s Limner for Scotland in 1866, and received knighthood in 1867. In 1878 the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.ed.ac.uk/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EUniversity of Edinburgh\u003C/a\u003E conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He was a poet of distinct merit, as his \u003Cu\u003EPoems by a Painter\u003C/u\u003E (1861) and \u003Cu\u003ESpindrift\u003C/u\u003E (1867) pleasantly exemplified. He was also well known as an antiquary, his hobby, indeed, being the collection of arms and armour. Sir Noel died in Edinburgh on the 26th of December 1901. His eldest son, \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.elliottsimpson.com/history/edinburgh1rcphyslab.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EDiarmid Noel Paton\u003C/a\u003E (b. 1859), became regius professor of physiology in Glasgow in 1906; and another son, Frederick Noel Paton (b. 1861), became in 1905 director of commercial intelligence to the government of India.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://36.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PA/PATON_SIR_JOSEPH_NOEL.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":true,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":54}