Dunnottar Castle
About this artwork
By the 1860s Dunnottar Castle was a favourite subject with Scottish painters and photographers. This ruined fortress, which is spectacularly situated on the north-east coast of Scotland near Stonehaven, has many historical associations. Latterly the seat of the Earls Marischal, it was dismantled after the 1715 Jacobite Rising. A prolific landscapist in oils and in watercolours, Paton was the younger brother of the figure painter Sir Joseph Noel Paton and the sculptor Amelia Robertson Paton, who was later married to the painter and photographer D.O. Hill.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Waller Hugh PatonScottish (1828 - 1895)
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title:Dunnottar Castle
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:Framed: 92.10 x 120.60 x 9.30 cm
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credit line:Collection of Allan and Carol Murray on long term loan to the National Galleries of Scotland
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accession number:NGL 002.03
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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. It is likely...
