Sir Joseph Noel Paton

Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901) was a Scottish poet and painter, born at Dunfermline. He became a pattern designer, but afterwards studied in Edinburgh and London, and devoted himself to art. His early subjects were mythical and legendary, later they have been chiefly religious. He was appointed Queen's Limner for Scotland in 1865, knighted in 1867, and in 1876 received his LL.D. from Edinburgh University. His "Quarrel" and "Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania" are in the National Gallery, Edinburgh. The illustrations of the "Dowie Dens o' Yarrow," and the series of religious allegories, "Pursuit of Pleasure," "Lux in Tenebris," "Faith and Reason," &c., are familiar through the engravings. His "Poems by a Painter" appeared in 1861.

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