Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — Paton, the Painter. [ARTICLE]

Paton, the Painter.

Sir Joseph Noel Paton, her Majesty’s limner for Scotland since 1865, completed his seventy-eighth year recently. In 1843 Sir Noel was admitted a student at the Royal Academy, and in 1850 he became an academician of the Royal Scotch Academy. Sir Noel Paton is a poet as well as a painter. Almost forty years ago he issued a volume of verse, entitled “Poems of a Painter,” and in 1867—the year he was knighted —his second volume of poems was issued, under the title “Spindrift” In his house in George square, Edinburgh, not far from the building in which Sir Walter Scott first opened his eyes, Sir Noel Paton, who enjoys good health, has one of the finest collections of arms and armor of any private owner in the country.