Sidney Paget

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Sidney Paget was a British artist best known for creating the classic illustrations of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories that helped define the detective’s iconic image.

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Sidney Paget canonical 14
Sidney Edward Paget 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British person
artist
illustrator
person
activeInPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
artisticMedium black-and-white drawing
ink illustration
burialPlace East Finchley Cemetery
causeOfDeath pleurisy
collaboratedWith Arthur Conan Doyle
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1860-10-04
dateOfDeath 1908-01-28
depictedCharacter Dr. Watson
Sherlock Holmes
linked to: Holmes
educatedAt Royal Academy Schools
employer The Strand Magazine
familyName Paget
fieldOfWork book illustration
magazine illustration
fullName Sidney Edward Paget
linked to: Sidney Paget
genre illustration
givenName Sidney
hasSignatureWork first published images of Sherlock Holmes wearing a deerstalker hat
helpedDefine visual image of Sherlock Holmes
influenced later visual portrayals of Sherlock Holmes
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Victorian art
nationality British
notableFor illustrations of Sherlock Holmes
notableWork illustrations for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
illustrations for The Hound of the Baskervilles
illustrations for The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
illustrations for The Strand Magazine Sherlock Holmes stories
numberOfChildren 6
occupation illustrator
painter
placeOfBirth London
linked to: London, England

United Kingdom
placeOfDeath London
linked to: London, England

United Kingdom
regionOfActivity London
linked to: London, England
sibling Henry Marriott Paget
Walter Paget
spouse Edith Hounsfield
workedOn The Return of Sherlock Holmes illustrations
The Sign of Four illustrations (Strand serialisation context)

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