Sidney Paget
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Sidney Edward Paget was an English illustrator best known for his illustrations that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine.
Paget in c. 1890
A Paget depiction of Sherlock Holmes (right) and Dr. Watson from "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" (1893)
Paget wearing a deerstalker cap
Dr. Watson
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Dr. John H. Watson is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Along with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson first appeared in the novel A Study in Scarlet. "The Advent
Sidney Paget
…the Royal Academy Schools. Here he befriended Alfred Morris Butler, an architecture student who may have become the model for Paget's illustrations of Dr. John Watson. Between 1879 and 1905 Paget contributed eighteen paintings, including nine portraits, to the Royal Academy exhibitions. Paget's drawings appeared in…
Watson reading bad news to Holmes in "The Five Orange Pips". One of Sidney Paget's iconic illustrations from The Strand magazine.
Watson and Holmes in a Sidney Paget illustration for "The Adventure of Silver Blaze"
Holmes (William Gillette, right) with Dr Watson (Bruce McRae, left), in the 1899 Broadway production of Sherlock Holmes