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SIR NOLEIL. PATON.

Borx~x 1821,

3 #|I IR JOSEPH NOLEL 5! PATON, R.S.AL A LD, was born & at Dunfermline, was admitted a student of the Roval Academy

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at the age of twenty-two, and four years later gained a prize ol /300 for his two pictures of = Christ Bensng the Cross axd the Reconciliation of

Oberon and 'Titania.” In 1861

was painted what NNy con- N sider to he his finest work, % L “Dawn: Luther at Fofurt,” Fle was appomted the Wi, i v N Queen’s Limner for Scotlind in 186035, and in 1307 received the honour of knizhthood. Among the best known of his fater pictares mav be mentioned * Saian Watchmg the Sleep of Christ,” = Christ the Grom Shep- herd,” and = The Man with the Muck-rake,”

Frow o Phota, by Shoae, E-dinbieah,

PFPRESENT DAY. From o Ploto. Uy Kinashary ol Notewtt, London,