Artists and Architects James Fillan's (1808 -1852) grave is in Woodside cemetery, marked by the sculpture 'Rachel, weeping' which he designed himself. He was an apprentice weaver who turned his hand to stonecarving, opening studio in Paisley, Glasgow and London. 55 Oakshaw Street houses Paisley's Photographic Society, founded in 1858. Some Paisley photographers who took their hobby overseas include Alexander Gardner (1821 -1882) and William Notman (1826-1891). Gardner emigrated to America 1865 where his photographs captured the Civil War and the building of the Union Pacific Railway. Notman, who established his own studios in Canada from 1858, is commemorated on a Canadian stamp. James Donald (1854-1917) the Paisley architect who designed Dunn Square worked for the famous Glasgow architect, Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, before setting up his own practice in Paisley. The architect T G Abercrombie (1862-1926) designed the Territorial Army Drill Hall in the High Street in 1896. It was paid for by public subscription. He had set up his architectural practice in his home town ten years earlier aged only 24. Jessie Newbery [nee Rowat] (1864-1948) was born in the town to a family of shawl manufacturers and studied textiles and stained glass at Glasgow School of Art. She established its embroidery department where her work and teaching influenced the MacDonald sisters who, with their husbands, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert Macnair, became Scotland's most famous Art Nouveau artists. Architect Thomas Smith Tait (1882-1954) was educated at the John Neilson Institution (now private flats) on Oakshaw Street. He designed St Andrew's House in Edinburgh, the stone piers of Sydney Harbour Bridge and the slender Tait's Tower at Glasgow's 1938 Empire Exhibition. In 1992, local sculptor Alexander Stoddart designed the statue of Diogenes, the Greek philosopher, which stands inside the former John Neilson Institution. Diogenes holds an upside-down version of the buildings 'porridge bowl' dome. Stoddart's neo-classical sculptures also feature in the Italian Centre in Glasgow. His notable works include statues of Robert Burns in Kilmarnock and David Hume in the High Street, Edinburgh.