Waller Hugh Paton
Poplars at Inverkeithing
About this artwork
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title:Poplars at Inverkeithing
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accession number:D 4185
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materials:Pencil on paper
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date created:Dated 1851
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measurements:16.40 x 25.70 cm
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credit line:Mr A.B. Kerr Gift 1945
Waller Hugh Paton
Waller Hugh Paton
Paton was born in Dunfermline, the son of a damask designer. After briefly following his father into the textile business he became a landscape painter. Hugh was the younger brother of the artist Sir Joseph Noel Paton, who was a good friend of the art critic and artist John Ruskin.…