他出生于Wooer的胡同，邓弗姆林，法夫，于1821年12月13日约瑟夫·尼尔佩顿和凯瑟琳·麦克迪尔米德，锦缎在镇设计师和织布。他是雕塑家的兄弟阿米莉亚·罗伯逊山和风景画家沃勒休佩顿。他也有一个哥哥，阿奇博尔德，和两个姐妹，凯瑟琳和亚历克西娅，谁所有儿童死亡; 佩顿竖立在他的父母，并在以后的生活中死去同胞的墓地纪念碑，[6]的坟墓可能是原本无人盯防。它位于北侧邓弗姆林修道院，是一个独特的红色花岗岩凯尔特十字架除了其他更小的砂岩标志。

佩顿参加了邓弗姆林学校，然后邓弗姆林艺术学院，进一步增强了他发展作为一个孩子的天赋。他用如在设计部门总监工作沿袭了家族贸易细布厂三年。他一生中最花了在苏格兰但他简要地研究在皇家艺术学院，伦敦在1843年，在那里他被辅导乔治·琼斯。虽然在伦敦就读佩顿会见了约翰·埃弗里特米莱斯，谁问他加入拉斐尔前派兄弟。

1858年，他结婚玛格丽特·古尔利费里尔和夫妇有11个孩子（七个儿子和四个女儿）。他们的长子，Diarmid诺埃尔佩顿（1859年至1928年），成为1906年期间在格拉斯哥生理学教授桃红，而另一个儿子，弗雷德里克·诺埃尔·佩顿（1861年至1914年），被任命为政府的商业情报总监印度于1905年 ，但也是一位著名的插画家。

邀请是兄弟会的正式成员是由佩顿拒绝虽然他在拉斐尔前派风格画和历史成了，童话，寓言和宗教题材的画家。加上丹尼尔Maclise，佩顿是一位民俗专家; 根据克里斯托弗·伍德，维多利亚时代的艺术专家， Maclise和佩顿都在童话绘画与民间传说的专业知识流派工作的唯一的艺术家。佩顿的知识凯尔特传说和民间传说苏格兰体现在他的画。在他在伦敦短的咒语，佩顿成为结识塞缪尔·卡特馆，编辑的艺术杂志，和他委托佩顿设计一些插图，他1842年的书的英国民谣之书。其他委托，设计书籍插图列入1844年版雪莱抒情戏剧解放了的普罗米修斯，的1845年出版的莎士比亚的 暴风雨和1863版本的柯勒律治的诗古舟子咏。

1844年佩顿的第一张画，露丝拾遗，在展出苏格兰皇家学院。他赢得了许多奖项，他的工作包括他的两个最有名的作品的奥伯龙和二氧化钛的争吵和奥伯伦的和解与二氧化钛（1847年-威斯敏斯特大厅），这两者都是提供给公众视野的苏格兰国家画廊。中的早期研究吵架画于1846年建成特色作为佩顿的毕业证书图片苏格兰皇家科学院的一年。该学院购买了700£的早期作品。

在制造之联营苏格兰皇家科学院于1850年。在1847年和一个老乡在1865年，他被任命为女王的画匠为苏格兰。他还出版诗集两册，并制作了一些雕塑。两年后，他获得了爵位，并于1878年被授予程度LL。D.由爱丁堡大学。

佩顿是一个知名的古董商，他的专长是武器和盔甲。他在爱丁堡1901年12月死亡26，和被埋没在院长公墓（在低遮蔽露台到南部）。他的女儿，汉密尔顿劳拉（1868年至1921年），被埋葬10M到他的东部与她的丈夫罗伯特·斯科特·蒙克里夫（1862年至1923年）。
 

He was born in Dunfermline, Fife Wooer alley, on December 13, 1821, Joseph Neil Payton and Catherine MacDiarmid, in the town of designers and weaving brocade. He is the sculptor's brother Amelia hill and landscape painter Hugh Hugh, Payton, and the rest of the world. He is a painter of the world. He is the brother of the sculptor, and he is a painter of. He also has a brother, Archibald, and two sisters, Catherine and A Alexia, who all children died; Payton erected in his parents, and later in life in the dead compatriots cemetery monument, the tomb of [6] may be the original unmarked. It is located in the north of Dunfermline Abbey, is a unique red granite Celtic Cross in addition to other smaller sandstone marks.
Payton joined Dunfermline school, then Dunfermline College of art, further enhanced his development as a child. He used such as working in the design department director followed the family trade muslin factory three years. He spent most of his life in Scotland but he briefly studied at Royal College of Art, London in 1843, where he was tutored by George Jones. While in London, Payton met with John at Everett Millais, who asked him to join the pre Raphaelite brotherhood.
In 1858, he married Margaret Gulliferil and the couple had 11 children (seven sons and four daughters). Their eldest son, Noel Payton Diarmid (1859 to 1928) in Glasgow during the 1906, became professor of physiology peachblow, while another son, Frederick Noel Peyton (1861 to 1914), was appointed as the director of business intelligence by the India government in 1905, but also a famous illustrator.

The invitation is a full member of the brotherhood is rejected by Payton while he was in the pre Raphaelite style of painting and history, fairy tales, fables and religious painters. With Daniel Maclise, Payton is an expert in folklore; according to Christopher Wood, the Vitoria times art experts, Maclise and Payton are in the fairy tale painting and folk tales of the professional school of knowledge work the only artist. Payton's knowledge of Celtic legends and folklore of Scotland is reflected in his paintings. In his short spell in London, Payton became acquainted with the Museum of Samuel, the editor of the art magazine, and commissioned him to design some illustrations of his 1842 book of British ballads in the book of. Other clients, design the illustrations included in the 1844 edition of Shelley's lyrical drama freed Plo Michel J, Shakespeare storm published in 1845 and the 1863 version of the poem, Coleridge's ancient mariner.
The first picture, Payton Ruth from 1844, exhibited in the Royal College of Scotland. He won many awards, including his work for reconciliation and TiO2 two of his most famous works of Oberon and titania and Oberon's argument (1847 - Westminster Hall), both of which are available to the public view of the National Gallery of Scotland. In the early days of the the Royal Academy of Sciences in Scotland, the picture of the fight painting was built in 1846 as a feature of the graduation certificate. The school bought 700 e's early works.
The Royal Academy of Sciences in Scotland in 1850. In 1847 and a fellow in 1865, he was appointed queen painter of Scotland. He also published two volumes of poetry, and produced a number of sculptures. Two years later, he won the title, and in 1878 was awarded the degree of LL. D. by University of Edinburgh.
Payton is a famous antique dealer, his specialty is weapons and armor. He died in Edinburgh in December 1901 26, and was buried in Dean cemetery (in low shade to the south terrace). His daughter, Hamilton, from 1868 to 1921, was buried 10M to his east with her husband, Robert Scott Moncrief (from 1862 to 1923).