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SIR JOSEPH NOEL PATON (1821-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . He gained a See also:prize of £200 in the first See also:Westminster See also: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 . 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 . His first exhibited picture, " See also:Ruth Gleaning," appeared at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1844 . He began to contribute to the Royal Academy of See also:London in 1856 . Throughout his career his preference was for allegorical, fairy and religious subjects . 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) . 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 . 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 . In 1878 the University of See also:Edinburgh conferred upon him the degree of LL.D . He was a poet of distinct merit, as his Poems by a Painter (1861) and Spindrift (1867) pleasantly exemplified .

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antiquary, his See also:hobby, indeed, being the collection of arms and See also:armour . Sir Noel died in Edinburgh on the 26th of December 1901 . His eldest son, Diarmid Noel Paton (b . 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 . 1861), became in 1905 director of commercial intelligence to the See also:government of See also:India .

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