Sidney Paget

Sidney Edward Paget ( born October 4, 1860 in London, † January 28, 1908 ) was a British illustrator.

Paget was the middle of three brothers (Henry, Sidney and Walter ). He began drawing at an early age and studied for two years at the British Museum in London before then the Royal Academy Schools attended the Heatherley 's School of Art and.

During the Victorian era, his works in the magazine "The beach " was published. Known worldwide Paget was his illustrations of the Sherlock Holmes stories. It is said that he the facial features of his brother Walter took for his illustrations of the master detective as a model, but what Sidney's older brother, Henry Marriott Paget denied. The checkered cap ( eng.: deerstalker ), can be seen with the Holmes on many pictures, going to Paget's own preference for this hat back and is explicitly mentioned only in a story of Doyle in The Adventure of Silver Blaze ( Eng.: silver star) as " to ear flapped traveling cap".

Sidney Paget made ​​a total of 356 drawings of 37 short stories and the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Sidney Paget was initially commissioned by the editors of "The beach " by a confusion between the brothers as an illustrator for the stories of Sherlock Homes. The editors wanted to offer the job to the younger brother Walter Paget, who was known for his military bearing illustrations in the Illustrated London News. Since them, however, the first name Walters was unknown, the letter with the offer Sidney was delivered. Later Walter illustrated novels such as King Solomon's treasure chamber ( 1895) by Henry Rider Haggard and Treasure Island ( 1899) by Robert Louis Stevenson. After the death of his elder brother Walter Paget illustrated the Sherlock Holmes story " The Dying Detective" (English: " The detective on his deathbed ").