watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour on brown paper
27 by 38.1cm., 10 1/2 by 15 inches
Paton was born in
Provenance:
J.S. Maas & Co.,
Bought by Sir David Scott (1887-1986), January 1974 for ?130;
By family descent until 2008
watercolour over black chalk heightened with bodycolour on brown paper
34.7 by 23.7cm., 13 1/2 by 9 1/4 inches
This is probably a view on the Hermitage of Braid, an area
of natural beauty just south of the city of
Provenance:
J.S. Maas & Co.,
Bought by Sir David Scott (1887-1986), 23rd June 1969 for ?126;
By family descent until 2008
Exhibited:
London, J.S. Maas & Co., High Art and Homely Scenes, 1969, no.87
Signed lower right: W.H. Paton and inscribed lower left: Largo/24th Sept 1860
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour
on buff paper, with arched top
248 x 361 mm., 9 ¾ x 14 ¼ in.
Provenance:
With the Fine Art Society, London, December
1971, no. 9668
Signed lower centre: Waller H. Paton R.S.A. and inscribed lower right: Loch of Park/8th August 1879
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour
Sheet 282 x 392 mm., 11 x 15 ¼ in.
Signed lower left: Arran/5th August 1864/Waller H. Paton
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour
on oatmeal paper
Sheet 27.3 by 38.6 cm., 10 ¾ by 15 in.
Paton was born in Dunfermline, the son of a damask designer, for whom he worked as an assistant before becoming a pupil of J.A. Houston. As a young man, his family, including his brother the artist Sir Joseph Noel Paton, often spent summer holidays on Arran, where they would sketch. There is a tradition on Arran that `Paton’s numerous landscapes so contributed to the popularity of the island for holiday makers, that he was allowed free lodging at the main hotel in Brodick’ (see June Baxter, Waller Hugh Paton: a Scottish Landscape Painter, 1992). Ruskin and Millais were both friends of his brother Noel and Paton has been described as the leading exponent of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape in Scotland. He exhibited views of Arran at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1854. A view of a stream on Arran inscribed ` Arran/19.th Sept. 1855’ was with Guy Peppiatt Fine Art in 2009 (see 18th and 19th Century British Drawings and Watercolours, exhibition catalogue, 2009, no.44).