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A small number of actors have played both Holmes and Watson, including Reginald Owen who played Watson in Sherlock Holmes (1932) and Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933); [78] [79] Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television; [80] Howard Marion-Crawford, who played ...
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Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. He was born in the Paris Louvre, while his parents were staying there during the French Revolution. Vernet quickly developed a disdain for the high-minded seriousness of academic French art work which was distinguished by art influenced by Classicism, and decided to paint subjects taken mostly from contemporary life. During his early career, when Napoleon Bonaparte was in power, he began de...
Restoration France
He gained recognition during the Bourbon Restoration for a series of battle paintings commissioned by the duc d'Orleans, the future King Louis-Philippe. Critics marvelled at the incredible speed with which he painted. Many of his paintings made during this early phase of his career were "noted for their historical accuracy as well as their charged landscapes". Examples of paintings in this style include his Four Battles series: The Battle of Jemappes (1821), The Battle of Montmirail (1822), T...
Later career
His depictions of Algerian battles, such as the Capture of the Smahla and the Capture of Constantine, were well received by other French people, as they were vivid depictions of their army in the heat of battle. After the fall of the July Monarchy during the Revolution of 1848, Vernet discovered a new patron in Napoléon III of France. He continued to paint representations of the heroic French army during the Second Empire and maintained his commitment to and realistic way. He accompanied the...
In Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", Holmes claims to be related to Vernet, stating, "My ancestors were country squires... my grandmother... was the sister of Vernet, the French artist", without further clarifying whether this is Claude-Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet, or Horace Vernet. The Holmes-Vern...
The Barrier of Clichy(1820)Napoleon bids farewell to his Guard(1824)Napoleon at the Battle of Arcole(1826)The Battle of Valmy(1826)Dayot, Armand (1898). Les Vernet : Joseph—Carle—Horace. Paris: A. Magnier.Harkett, Daniel and Katie Hornstein, eds, (2017). Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England.Ruutz-Rees, Janet E. (Janet Emily) (1880). Horace Vernet. New York: Scribner and Welford.Sessions, Jennifer E. (2011), By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria. Cornell University Press.May 21, 2024 · Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The prototype for the modern mastermind detective , Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet , published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887.
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Sherlock Holmes painted by the artist Sidney Paget, in The Strand magazine. Sherlock Holmes is a character from books written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His most famous story was The Hound of the Baskervilles .
Sidney Paget (1860-1908), the famed illustrator, has created the most recognisable and iconic image of Sherlock Holmes. In 1891, the Strand Magazine began to publish Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories with illustrations of Sidney Paget and soon they became an inseparable component of the Sherlock Holmes canon.
