Waller Hugh Paton, R.S.A., R.S.W.

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12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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Description

Waller Hugh Paton, R.S.A., R.S.W.
Dreamthorp
signed with monogram and dated l.r.: 1865; titled, signed and inscribed with the artist's address on a label attached to the stretcher
oil on canvas, arched top
73.5 by 137cm., 29 by 54in.

Purchased from the artist by Mr John Mood, Rosehall, for £100 c.1865;
Brussels, Hôtel de Ventes Horta, 25 April 2017, lot 437

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1865, no.698

Waller H. Paton, Pen and Pencil Memoranda of Exhibited Works by me in Oils and Watercolours, Vol. I., 1848 to 1865, unpublished m.s.

Dreamthorp is based upon sketches made at Linlithgow in the early summer of 1864 and titled after a poem by the Scottish poet Alexander Smith.