STRAND MAGAZINE ARTICLE - DECEMBER 1895
We are certain that our readers will be glad of the opportunity of making the acquaintance of some of the artists who have done so much for their pleasure, and whose names have become so familiar to them. We are glad, also, to take this occassion to acknowledge our indebtedness to these gentlemen, and to many others whose portraits we are not able to present here, whose work has had so great a share in building up the popularity of THE STRAND MAGAZINE.
MR. SIDNEY EDWARD PAGET, born October 4th, 1860, in London, fifth son of the late Robert Paget, vestry clerk of Clerkenwell, was educated at a City school, and early developed a taste for drawing. On leaving school he studied from the antique at the British Museum for two years, after which he went to Heatherley's School of Art, in Newman Street, London, to study painting. Being successful as an exhibitor (exhibiting two pictures at the Academy when eighteen years old, and constantly since that time), he took a studio and began painting portraits and small pictures, and also illustrated various books and illustrated papers, chiefly war subjects of Egypt and Soudan. At twenty-one he entered the Royal Academy Schools for a term of six years, during which time he carried off several important prizes, only missing the gold medal for painting by a casting vote, having "tied" with the successful student. He married in 1893, and lives in a charming part of Hertfordshire, having also a studio in Holland Park Road, Kensington. Mr. Paget has been working chiefly at illustrations for the last three or four years, and his delineations of the famous "Sherlock Holmes" stories had their share in the popularity of that wonderful detective.
