Joseph Noel Paton (13 December 1821 – 26
December 1901) was a Scottish artist, born in Woolers Alley, Dunfermline, Fife.Joseph Noel Paton (13 December 1821 – 26
December 1901) was a Scottish artist, born in Woolers Alley, Dunfermline, Fife.
He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style and became a painter of historical, fairy, allegorical and religious subjects. Sir Joseph Noel Paton's intricate "The Fairy Rade" to your left contains the image of a child stolen by the fairy queen. Throughout the nineteenth century the British, who took Faerie folk very seriously, demonstrates how they provide important commentary on changing tastes and attitudes. Further study of the works of Terri Windling and Carole G. Silver are in contrast on some issues but are complimentary on other issues of the Victorian period.
The Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion are exposed and proposed in Faerie art of the period.
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