Waller Hugh Paton R.S.A.

Waller Hugh Paton R.S.A., R.S.W. (1828-1895)

A Wooded Stream, Isle of Arran, Scotland

Signed, dated 19.th Sept. 1855 and inscribed Arran

Watercolour with bodycolour over pencil on buff paper

23 x 33cm; 9 x 13in

Provenance:

J.S. Maas & Co., London

Bought by Sir David Scott (1887-1986), January 1974 for £130

By family descent until 2008

Paton was 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. Ruskin and Millais were both friends of his brother Noel and he has been described as the leading exponent of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape in Scotland. Paton exhibited views of Arran at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1854.