Henry M. Paget

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

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

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

Work

Examples of newspaper illustration

The way in which illustrated papers like the Illustrated London News treated illustrations from correspondents overseas was that they often had an artist rework the material to produce a drawing from which the engraving could be prepared. This was particularly the case with rough sketches and initially with photographs. The following examples, are with one exception, by courtesy of the Wellcome Collection. They show how 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 The Sphere 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.
  • Soldiers in packed train carriages receive tea from women and children on the ground. Form original photo by M Ellis
  • A full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith (original sketch by H McCormick)

Examples of newspaper illustrations turned into paintings

Paget sometimes also turned the sketches into brush and wash or watercolour paintings, as in these examples also from the Boer War, by courtesy of the Wellcome Collection.

  • Removing the wounded after battle from Skion Kop
  • British soldiers tending the wounded Boers after a battle at Potgieter's Drift
  • RAMC Officer bandages a wounded man at Paardeberg Drift (after a photo by Reinhold Thistle)

Portrait painting

In addition to his work as an illustrator, he was best known in England as a portrait painter and painter of scenes from history and Greek mythology.[3]

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]

Example of book illustration

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
  • The person dressed as a leper rushed into the open and attacked
  • A few kept drinking and making merry
  • The bride fainted after the bridegroom was killed by an arrow to the heart
  • The Duke dubs Richard a knight
  • His enemy finally lies dead, pierced through the heart by an arrow

References
  1. The Artur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia -- Henry M. Paget
  2. Hodgson, Pat (1977). "Introduction". The War Illustrators. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 24.
  3. "Henry Marriott Paget" in the German language Wikipedia
  4. 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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