work including for two of his most famous works The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania and The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania (1847 – Westminster Hall), both of which are available to public view at the National Gallery of Scotland. An earlier study of the Quarrel painting was completed in 1846 and featured as Paton's diploma picture at the Royal Scottish Academy that year. The Academy purchased the earlier work for £700. Paton became an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1847 and was made a Fellow in 1850. In 1865, he was appointed Queen's Limner for Scotland. He also published two volumes of poetry and produced a number of sculptures. Two years later he received a knighthood, and in 1878 was conferred the degree LLD by the University of Edinburgh. In 1860 he was living at 37 Drummond Place in the New Town, Edinburgh. Paton was a well known antiquary, whose specialty was arms and armour. In 1859 he raised and commanded the 1st Edinburgh (City) Artillery Volunteer Corps, composed mainly of artists with the painter John Faed as his lieutenant. In 1875 Paton was one of the founding members of the Cockburn Association, the influential Edinburgh conservationist organisation, serving on its ruling council until 1885 when he became the campaigning group's vice-president, a position he retained until his death 16 years later. He died in Edinburgh at his home 33 George Square on 26 December 1901, and is buried in Dean Cemetery (in the obscured lower terrace to the south). Family In 1858, he married Margaret Gourlay Ferrier and the couple had 11 children (four daughters and seven sons). Their eldest son, Diarmid Noel Paton (1859–1928), became a Regius Professor of physiology at the University of Glasgow during 1906. Their second son. Frederick W.F. Noel Paton (1861–1914), was Director General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics for India and was a noted illustrator. Another son, Ranald Alexander Noel Paton (born 8 June 1864), also a portrait painter, who married Winifred Jane Wallace. His daughter, Hamilton Lora Paton (1868–1921), is buried to his east with her husband, Robert Scott Moncrieff (1862–1923). Hamilton and Robert's daughter Madeline Scott Moncrieff married James Gordon McIntyre, Lord Sorn. Works Cymocles Discovered by Atis in the Bowre Of Blisse, Spencer's Fairie Queene, Book II, Chapter V (1848) (Type: Pen, ink and wash; Size: 8 × 12 inches (21 × 30.5 cm); Location: Public collection)