It is not well known, except, of course, for fans of Sherlock Holmes, the illustrator, accompanying sketch, that the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous character in The Strand Magazine , That it was by accident.

Edward Sidney Paget was born in London in 1860 and was concerned a young age. He studied for two years on the British Museum, before taking part in Heatherley’s School of Art and later, The Royal Academy. He had his first picture at the Academy when he was only 18 and later took much longer there. His subjects, themes and mythological landscapes, but by 1890, it is preferably in black and white working more and more.

Now, of course, best known for his illustrations of Sherlock Holmes. Indeed, it was not the choice of the illustrator of origin. George Butterworth Heinemann, Magazine Beach in Paget’s wanted is the younger brother Walter, at the date of a much better famous artist and illustrator, having already shown Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe. He made mistakes but the confrontation with the Commission in Sidney. He illustrated The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first twelve stories, the beach, summer, from July 1891 to December 1892.

First, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle regretted that many Paget Holmes is nice, he (Doyle) had initially planned and describes the character. It was said that Sidney Paget model drawings of the great detective on the similarity of his brother Walter. Of course, another older brother (it was at least five brothers, all illustrators and artists), Henry Paget Marriot is cited in the 1912 edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography words’ L ‘ assertion that artists brother Walter, or other person has served as a model for the portrait of Sherlock Holmes is incorrect. “I think he should know, as he was apparently very close to his brother.