01/04/2025
Waller Hugh PATON
Dunferline (Scotland),1828 – Edinburgh,1895
Low Tide at Pettycur Bay
Watercolour and gouache on paper, 350 x 530 mm.
Signed and dated lower left: Waller.H. Paton R.S.A. 1883.
Waller Hugh Paton RSA RSW (27 July 1828 – 8 March 1895) was a Scottish landscape
artist in the second half of the 19th century.
Paton was born in Wooer’s Alley, Dunfermline, the son of Joseph Neil Paton (1797-1874),
a damask designer, and Catherine McDiarmid.
In his teens, Paton worked with his father as a damask designer. From age twenty he trained
under the mid-19th century artist John Houston (1802–1884) RSA. He was elected an
associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, in 1857 and became a full member (RSA) in 1865.
In 1878 he became a member of the Royal Society of Watercolourists (RSW).
In 1858 he and his brother illustrated William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s book « Lays of the
Scottish Cavaliers », published in 1863.