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A Gate on a Path, Arran

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Date

August 1864

Artist

Waller Hugh Paton (1828-1895)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

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).

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Arran, Scotland

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