Figure 1.-- Here is Paja when he was 15 years old. Again the photograph is most likely one taken by his father. It shows him dressed as a then fashionable teenager would have dressed from an artistic background. He has a relaxed but serious youthful look about him. He wears a hat and his hair is still short and a little untidy. He wears a white shirt with what looks like a a bow tie. His jacket has pointed lapels and a button holes.

Paja Jovanovic was born June 4. 1859. Paja's childhood was spent in Versec. He left his birth place when he was 15 to go to Vienna. HBC has discovered two photographs of Paja. One is of him as a boy of 6 years (figure 1). This photograph was most likely taken by his father in his studio in Versec. The boy is dressed in a long trousered suit styled in traditional Serbian fashion. He is wearing a white long sleeved shirt with a collar and fluffy cuffs. He is most likely wearing black boots. His hair is dark and cut short in no particular style. The second photograph is of Paja when he was 15 years old. Again the photograph is most likely one taken by his father. It shows him dressed as a then fashionable teenager would have dressed from an artistic background. He has a relaxed but serious youthful look about him. He wears a hat and his hair is still short and a little untidy. He wears a white shirt with what looks like a a bow tie. His jacket has pointed lapels and a button holes.

William Fergusson

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