Henry Marriott Paget

Henry Marriott Paget (born December 31, 1857 in Clerkenwell , Middlesex , † March 27, 1936 in London - Hampstead ) was a British painter and illustrator.

HM Paget was the eldest of the three brothers Henry Marriott, Sidney and Walter and like them he illustrated books and magazines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also a major painter of British Symbolism and Art Nouveau . He usually drew "HMP" (see picture examples). He worked for The Sphere , among others , where he was best known for his work as an "illustrator" during the Balkan War of 1912/13. Paget was the only western eyewitness to the murder of the then Turkish Chief of Staff Nazim Pascha by a group around Enver Pascha on January 23, 1913, which he captured in a famous illustration for the London magazine "The Sphere". During this time Paget lived in Constantinople and experienced the cosmopolitan spirit of optimism of the early phase of the " Second Ottoman constitutional period " between 1908 and 1913. Among other things, there was an encounter with the German writer and journalist Dr Friedrich Schrader and his (as a Bulgarian Sephardic in an Anglican orphanage Wife who grew up in Istanbul) was photographed during this time.

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. He entered the Royal Academy of Arts in 1874 and exhibited there from 1879 to 1894.

HM Paget was born with the painter Henrietta. Farr, the eldest daughter of statistician William Farr and sister of the famous actress Florence Farr. He lived in the garden city and artist colony of Bedford Park, then outside London . Irish writers (and later Nobel Prize winners) George Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats were among their acquaintances .

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  HM Paget, 1884: Perkin Warbeck in the pillory (History of England)

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  HM Paget, 1897: Greek soldiers set off for Crete (war artist)

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  HM Paget, 1892: Scene from the second act of the comic opera "The Vicar of Bray" by Edward Solomon in the Savoy Theater

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  HM Paget, 1897: Greek retreat from Domokos, Crown Prince Konstantin (the uncle of HM Prince Philip ) with entourage (war draftsman)

Web links

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/henry-mariott-paget
• http://www.anatpro.com/index_files/Henry_Marriott_Paget.htm
• http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/illus/paget.htm
• http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/shalott/paget1.html
• http://www.invaluable.com/artist/paget-henry-marriott-dcax5q4wmw

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mrs Fanny Christine Goldstein Schrader in the Find a Grave database . Accessed July 1, 2015.