1. Sidney Edward Paget was a British artist of the Victorian era, best known for his illustrations that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine.
11 Facts About Sidney Paget
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Sidney Paget was the fifth of nine children born to Robert Paget, the vestry clerk of St James and St John in Clerkenwell, and Martha Paget, a music professor.
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Between 1879 and 1905 Sidney Paget contributed eighteen paintings, including nine portraits, to the Royal Academy exhibitions.
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Sidney Paget's drawings appeared in the Strand Magazine, the Pictorial World, The Sphere, The Graphic, The Illustrated London News, and The Pall Mall Magazine, and his work became well known in both the United Kingdom and United States.
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Sidney Paget provided illustrations for Arthur Morrison's Martin Hewitt detective stories and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes work, doing much to popularise both series.
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On 1 June 1893, Sidney Paget married Edith Hounsfield, daughter of William Hounsfield, a farmer.
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Sidney Paget is best remembered as the creator of the popular image of Sherlock Holmes from the original publication of Conan Doyle's stories in The Strand Magazine.
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Sidney Paget was originally hired to illustrate The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a series of twelve short stories that ran from July 1891 through June 1892.
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In 1893, Sidney Paget illustrated The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published in The Strand as further episodes of the Adventures.
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Sidney Paget's illustrations have influenced interpretations of the detective in fiction, film and drama.
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Altogether, Sidney Paget did some 356 published drawings for the Sherlock Holmes series.