[1][4] His father, Jules Françios Pages (1843-1910) ran a local engraving business, and his son worked there as an apprentice.
[2][5][3] In 1888, he moved to Paris, France in order to study at the Académie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Tony Robert-Fleury.
[6] He returned to Paris, in 1902 and began teaching night classes at the Académie Julian.
[3] Pages spent forty years in France, returning frequently to San Francisco to paint and exhibit his work.
[3] Following the outbreak of World War II, Pages returned to the United States and died in San Francisco on May 22, 1946.