Walter Paget

British illustrator and portrait artist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish illustrator and portrait artist
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasIllustrator
Work fieldArts Creativity
Gender
Male
Birth1863
Death1935 (aged 72 years)
Family
Siblings:Sidney Paget Henry Marriott Paget
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Biography

Walter Paget

Walter Stanley Paget (1863–1935) was a British illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th century, who signed his work as "Wal Paget". Paget held a gold medal from the Royal Academy of Arts, and was the youngest of three brothers, Henry M. Paget (eldest) and Sidney Paget (middle brother), all illustrators.

Paget was the original choice of publisher George Newnes to illustrate Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine, but through a misunderstanding the commission went to his brother, Sidney.

Walter Paget provided illustrations for numerous authors of the era, including the 1910 edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, and Doyle's 1913 Holmes short story, "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," in The Strand Magazine.

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