....Paton was a sporting and animal painter, engraver and genre illustrator who was born in Stepney, London ....He grew up around Gravesend, Kent as his father was a maritime pilot. .... His first known exhibition piece was at the age of 16 – a portrait of a German peasant girl. Thereafter he continued to exhibit regularly up to 1890. He exhibited a total of 20 works at the Royal Academy’s annual selling exhibition. The first was in 1878, a painting titled You Are No Chicken depicting two young chickens looking at a frog. It was to be a turning point in Paton’s career as the work was purchased by Edward Ernest Leggatt who was running his own successful print and art dealership. You Are No Chicken was engraved in 1880 and its commercial success cemented a lifelong association with Leggatt, who became the main publisher of Paton’s work. Paton died at Walton-on-the Naze, Essex from heart failure ten days short of his 54th birthday.
Much of his work was narrative in composition and his small signed limited edition engravings, for which he is today best known, were often surrounded by humorous vignettes.
More domestic information is also available:
After his marriage to Maria Sophia Edwards, the family lived in rural communities in Kent and Essex, [and] the artist divided his time between London and the countryside, earning animal portraits on order. He was a good family man ...and [with his wife] raised four sons and three daughters.
Frank Paton's dog portraits may show off his best talents, but his cat paintings are numerous and cute and often funny.
There are lots more pictures of cats he did here.
After his marriage to Maria Sophia Edwards, the family lived in rural communities in Kent and Essex, [and] the artist divided his time between London and the countryside, earning animal portraits on order. He was a good family man ...and [with his wife] raised four sons and three daughters.
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