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Waller Paton

DETAILS
  • Artist

    Waller Paton

  • Date

    1869

  • Medium

    Watercolour on paper

  • Object number

    733

  • Dimensions unframed

    34.2 × 52.1 cm

  • Dimensions framed

    62 × 80 cm

  • Marks

    Signed bottom right

  • Subject

    Landscape

ARTIST PROFILE

Waller Hugh Paton RSA RSW, 1828-1895

Paton was born in Dunfermline, Fife, the brother of the painter Sir Joseph Noel Paton and the sculptress Amelia Hill. He studied briefly and with John Adam Houston, but was largely self-taught; the art theories of John Ruskin and of the Pre-Raphaelites greatly influenced him. A prolific artist, he concentrated almost exclusively on landscape in oil and watercolour. Nearly all his landscapes are Scottish, although he visited the English Lake District several times.