(1828 - 1895)
Waller Hugh Paton was born in Wooers Alley, Dunfermline, Fife. His father was a damask designer and he began his career designing damasks. He later studied briefly in Edinburgh under John Adam Houston, be was largely self-taught. At 33, he married Margaret Kinloch, with whom he lived in Edinburgh and had seven children. He was influenced by John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites and his elder brother, Noël, was friends with Ruskin and Millais. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy (1865), Liverpool Society of Watercolour Painters (1872) and the Society of Watercolour Painters (1878). His illustrations include plates for ‘Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers’ (1858) and ‘The Shores of Fife’ (1872). Patton died in Edinburgh at the age of 66.
