Henry M. Paget

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Henry Marriott Paget
Born(1857-12-31)December 31, 1857
Clerkenwell, London, England
DiedMarch 27, 1936(1936-03-27) (aged 78)
Hampstead, London, England
Known forPortraits and illustrations of historic events

Henry Marriott Paget RBA (1856 – 1936) was a British painter and illustrator, who signed his work "HMP".

Paget, along with his brothers, Sidney Paget and Walter Paget, provided illustrations for works by Arthur Conan Doyle.[1]

Work[]

Newspaper illustration[]

Illustrated papers like the Illustrated London News often had an artist rework the foreign correspondent's material to produce a drawing from which the engraving could be prepared. This was particularly the case with rough sketches, and initially with photographs. Paget prepared sketches and photographs from the Greco-Turkish War (1897) and the Boer War by war-correspondents for publication. Hodgson notes that almost all the illustrations published by during the Boer War were redrawn in London.[2]

  • Greek retreat from Domokos - Crown Prince Constantine and entourage

  • Soldiers in camp driving off a swarm of locusts with anything to hand.

Newspaper illustrations turned into paintings[]

Paget sometimes turned sketches into brush and wash or watercolour paintings, as in some of his work from the Boer War.

  • Removing the wounded after battle from Skion Kop

  • British soldiers tending the wounded Boers after a battle at Potgieter's Drift

Painting[]

In addition to his work as an illustrator, he was known in England as a painter, executing portraits, street scenes, and scenes from history and Greek mythology.

He contributed a painting to an 1882 book Bedford Park, celebrating the then-fashionable garden suburb of that name.[3]

  • Painting of 7 Queen Anne's Gardens, London, 1882

Book illustration[]

Kirkpatrick lists over fifty books illustrated by Paget.[4]

Henry Paget provided illustrations for the 1890 edition of Doyle's story, "Micah Clarke," published by Longmans, Green, and Company.[5]

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson had first been published as a serial in Young Folks in 1883 and it was a huge success.[6] Cassell & Co. published the story as a book in 1888, and it was such a success that the first printing sold out to the book trade even before it was published.[7] Cassell brought out a new edition with illustrations by Paget in 1891.[4] The illustrations below are from the 1897 edition by Cassell, from scans at the British Library.[8]

  • The crossbow man aimed at the unsuspecting target.

  • The horse neighed and upset the ferry.

References[]

  1. ^ The Artur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia -- Henry M. Paget
  2. ^ Hodgson, Pat (1977). "Introduction". The War Illustrators. New York: Macmillan Publishing. p. 24.
  3. ^ Dollman, John Charles; Hargitt, Edward; Harrison, Thomas Erat; Jackson, F. Hamilton; Nash, Joseph, Jr.; Paget, H. M.; Rooke, Thomas; Trautschold, Manfred; Brooks, Vincent; Carr, Jonathan T.; Berry, Berry F. (1882). Bedford Park. Harrison and Sons. OCLC 193146366.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (1905-07-11). "W. H. Overend". The Men Who Drew For Boys (And Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children's Books: 1844-1970. London: Robert J. Kirkpatrick. p. 309.
  5. ^ The Artur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia -- Henry M. Paget
  6. ^ Steuart, John Alexander (1928). "Unromantic Reality and Some Engaging Philosophy". Robert Louis Stevenson : a critical biography. pp. 383–384. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
  7. ^ "Literature and Art". Aberdeen Evening Express (Monday 13 August 1888): 2. 1888-08-13.
  8. ^ Stevenson, Robert Louis (1897). The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses. Retrieved 2020-05-02.

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