James Paton
Nationality: Scottish
Date of birth: 1843
Date of death: 1921
Category: curator, town councillor
Date of birth: 1843
Date of death: 1921
Category: curator, town councillor
Identity:
James W. Paton was the Curator of the Glasgow Industrial Museum in 1891; he was Superintendent of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (1876–1914).
Life:
Paton was one of the recipients of an artists' petition for the Glasgow Coporation to purchase Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle y137. He also negotiated with Whistler over the purchase in March and April 1891.
His portrait, by James Henderson, is in Glasgow Museums.
Bibliography:
Bell, Peter, Who was Who in Edwardian Scotland, 1981.
'James Paton', ArtUK.
