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IR JOSEPH NOEL PATON, LL.D., was born at Dunfermline, was admitted a student of the Royal Academy at the age of twenty-two, and four years later gained a prize of £300 for his two pictures of "Christ Bearing the Cross" and the "Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania." In 1861 was painted what many consider to be his finest work, "Dawn: Luther at Erfurt." He was appointed the Queen's Limner for Scotland in 1865, and in 1867 received the honour of knighthood. Among the best known of his later pictures may be mentioned "Satan Watching the Sleep of Christ," "Christ the Great Shepherd," and "The Man with the Muck-rake."