See also:SIR See also:JOSEPH See also:NOEL See also:PATON (1821-1901)
, See also:British painter, was See also:born, on the 13th of See also:December 1821, in Woolers See also:Alley, See also:Dunfermline, where his See also:father, a See also:fellow of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, carried on the See also:trade of a See also:damask manufacturer
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He showed strong See also:artistic inclinations in See also:early childhood, but had no See also:regular See also:art training, except a brief See also:period ofstudy in the Royal See also:Academy School in 1843
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He gained a See also:prize of £200 in the first See also:Westminster See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall competition, in 1845, for his See also:cartoon " The Spirit of See also:Religion," and in the following See also:year he exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy his " See also:Quarrel of See also:Oberon and Titania." A See also:companion See also:fairy picture, " The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania " went to Westminster Hall in 1847, and for it and his picture of " See also:Christ bearing the See also:Cross " he was awarded a prize of £300 by the See also:Fine Arts Commissioners
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The two Oberon pictures are in the See also:National See also:Gallery of See also:Scotland, where they have See also:long been a centre of attraction
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His first exhibited picture, " See also:Ruth Gleaning," appeared at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1844
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He began to contribute to the Royal Academy of See also:London in 1856
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Throughout his career his preference was for allegorical, fairy and religious subjects
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Among his most famous pictures are " The Pursuit of See also:Pleasure " (1855), Mors Janua Vitae " (1866), " Oskold and the Elle-maids " (1874), and " In See also:Die Malo " (1882)
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See also:Sir See also:Noel See also:Paton also produced a certain amount of See also:sculpture, more notable for See also:design than for searching See also:execution
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He was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1847, and a full member in 1850; he was appointed See also:Queen's Limner for Scotland in 1866, and received See also:knighthood in 1867
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In 1878 the University of See also:Edinburgh conferred upon him the degree of LL.D
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He was a poet of distinct merit, as his Poems by a Painter (1861) and Spindrift (1867) pleasantly exemplified
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He was also well known as an See also:antiquary, his See also:hobby, indeed, being the collection of arms and See also:armour
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Sir Noel died in Edinburgh on the 26th of December 1901
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His eldest son, Diarmid Noel Paton (b
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1859), became regius See also:professor of See also:physiology in See also:Glasgow in 1906; and another son, See also:Frederick Noel Paton (b
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1861), became in 1905 director of commercial intelligence to the See also:government of See also:India
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