Paton Sir Joseph Noel

Paton Sir Joseph Noel, poet and painter, born at Dunfermline; 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; “Poems by a Painter” appeared in 1861; b. 1821.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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