Henry M. Paget

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]

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 The Sphere during the Boer War were redrawn in London.^[2]

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  Greek retreat from Domokos - Crown Prince Constantine and entourage
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  Soldiers in camp driving off a swarm of locusts with anything to hand.

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

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  Removing the wounded after battle from Skion Kop
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  British soldiers tending the wounded Boers after a battle at Potgieter's Drift

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]

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

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]

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  The crossbow man aimed at the unsuspecting target.
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  The horse neighed and upset the ferry.

• Works by Henry M. Paget at Project Gutenberg
• H.M Paget at Library of Congress, with 5 library catalog records
• Henry Marriott Paget at ARt UK
• Works by Paget at the Wellcome Collection.
• detailed biography of H. M. Paget On the Bear Alley blog. This blog was written by Kirkpatrick and is an draft version of the biography in Kirkpatrick's book: Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (2019). "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.