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George Charles Haiti (8 June 1855 - 31 March Gog hre at1924) was an English designer, painter, illustrator and GereCalsHItwriter. His most famous work is the iconic coverdesign of the Strand Magazine launched in 1 891which helped popularise the Sherlock Holmes stories ~of Arthur Conan Doyle. Bait was also a founderClub.It "'
ContentsI Life and ArtN*2Illustration work and The Strand magazine .*3The Sette of Odd Volumes and Oscar tWilde
* 4 The London Sketch Club Caricature of George Charles Haitd by Tom* 5 Death and legacy Browne* 6 External linksBitnae GogChrs M* 7 Notes and referencesBitnae GogChrsllit
Dorn 8 June 1.855Bexley, England
Life and Art Died 31 March 1924 (aged 68)London, England
George Charles Haitd was born in Bexleyheath, Kent, Nationality Englishon 8 June 1855, the second child and eldest son of FedPainting, Illustration, TextileGeorge Haitt senior. His ancestors were FrenchHuguenot immigrants, an awareness of which seemsto have informed his later catchphrase that "art holds no nationality." 11
His great grandfather, William Hatd, and his grandfather, Henry Hait, worked in the calico printingindustry centred around the River Cray in Kent Henry's brother, John, was also a textile designer,samples of whose "Spring Fashions for 1813" are to be found in the archives of the Victoria and AlbertMuseum.
His ftthcr, George Hait (1825-1871), was a prominent early Victorian cashmere shawl designer, albeitsadly so disillusioned with being a "slave of the fashion of the hour"12 that he actively discouraged hisson from following him into the same profession. Ironically, it was his father's premature death ofsmallpox aged 45 which propelled G.C. to do just that when he found himself head of the household atthe age of 16.
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HlaitS would later comment in his own Who'Is Who entry that he was "absolutely self-taught" in art. Aftermoving to London in the early lS70s he began making aname for himself as awallpaper and carpetdesigner, later working in metal, tapestry and stained glass.
In 1883 he exhibited the first of many paintings at the Royal Academy. Haitd worked in both oils andwatercolours, specialising in landscapes with many executed on his travels to Venice, Morocco andNorthern Europe. In 1897 his street scene of Dortmund won the Gld Landscape prize at that yetfsCrystal Palace exhibition. He would usually sign his work "(leo C. HatS' or "G.C. Halt6'.
According to his friend, the great war correspondentFrederic Villiers: "I never met a man who was sorapid with brush and colours in transferring animpression to his canvas. His memory is somarvellously correct that one may watch himproduce, within an hour or so, a sketch of a Dutchmarket-place with its greyness of atmosphere, astreet in Bruges with the architectural beauty of itscathedral and houses, or a suburb in Tangier with itsmosques and minarets glowing in the heat against adeep purple sky, as accurate in tone and drawing asif he had been seated in front of his subject." 131 Cliffs (1900), Watercolour by G.C. Haitd
As Villiers al so commented, Hait6 was "one of the busiest men of his own little stage, for he is apresident or fellow of some eight or nine art societies." 14 Indeed, his talents would earn himmembership of numerous art societies including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, theRoyal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Society of Miniature Painters,the Royal British Colonial Society Of Artists, the National Association of House Painters andDecorators of England and Wales and, as president the Institute of Decorative Designers.1 l
Haite also wrote and lectured on art and design and in 1897 was elected president of the NicolsonInstitute art gallery in Staffordshire. His inexhaustible social activities even stretched beyond the visualarts, also involved in the famous literary club the Sette of Odd Volumes (see below), one of the earliestmembers of the Japan Society of London and, from 1888, a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
llustration work and The Strand magazineIn 1886 Haitk published Plant Stud itsfor Artists, Designers and Art Students. Though it would be theonly book solely written and illustrated by Hait, he edited and contributed drawings to numerous othersincluding naturalist Edward Tickner Edwardes' Side-Lights of Nature in Quill and Crayon and In TheGreen L eaf and the Sere by the pseudonymous ornithologist 'A Son Of The Marshes'J"
In late 1890 he was asked by editor George Newnes to provide the cover pen and ink illustration for hisnew magazine The Stand, launched in January 189 1. As sales of the magazine took off with the first ofits Sherlock Holmes stories beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in the July 1891 issue, Haitd's graphicrendering of Londen's Strand looking Eastwards with the magazine title suspended from telegraph wireswas destined to become an icon of late-Victorian publishing.
Variations of Hait6s design were featured on its sister title, The Strand Musical Magazine, and onseveral Sherlock Holmes first edition bound volumes.
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* The Sette of Odd Volumes and OscarWildeIn 1883 Hait6 was elected a member of the elite literary club theSette of Odd VoluxnesP17 He became its annual vice-president in1887 and president -known as "Oddship" - from 1891 - 1892. Sincethe Sette addressed its members under individual tidles pertaining totheir interests or profession, Haitd was referred to as "The Art-Critic". As president he fashioned his own medal shaped like apainter's palette and staged a then-novel "Phonograph Evening"where the members recorded their voices onto an Edison waxPhonograph cylinder. Even more revolutionary for the club, it wasunder Haitd's presidency that the Sette broke with male-dominatedtradition by staging its first mixed "Ladies Evening".181
The Strand annual 1894 Other than its core membership of "Brothers", the Sette attractedmany esteemed guests to its supper evenings and it was here thatHaitd met, among others, Jerome K. Jerome, Aubrey Beardsley,
John Tenniel, Charles Dickens, Jr. and, on more than one occasion, Oscar Wilde.
There are records of at least four meetings with Wilde, the earliest being a report in the Pall MalGazelle of a preliminary gathering of "The British Association Of British Artists" at London's GrosvenorHouse on 8 June 1888: Hait was there representing "art applied to industry" while Wilde was present aseditor of The Woman's World magazine. Fellow Sette member Edward Heron-Allen ("TheNecromancer") also records Haitt and Wilde in the same verse of a poem detailing a club dinner on 8January 1890 when after Wilde's "gay and apt oration" Haitd launched into a congratulatory "panegyric".At the following month's Sette meeting Hait 's special guest was Oscar's brother, journalist WillieWilde.
The London Sketch ClubIn the spring of 1898 Hait6 was instrumental in the formation of theLondon Sketch Club, a breakaway faction of the prestigiousLangham Sketching Club where he had acted as president from1883 until 1887. The catalyst for this split in ranks was a seeminglypetty argument over hot or cold suppers. Those with a preferencefor hot suppers including Tom Browne, John Hassall, Dudley Hardyand Phil May left the Langham to create their own rebel drawing
- society. Haitd was asked to join them as inaugural president and theLondon Sketch Club was formed, holding its first dinner on AprilFool's Day.
Although Hait6 sat for a formal oil portrait by Frank O'Sullivan, it is1899 London Sketch Club through the many caricatures and drawings in the archives of the
cartoon of Haitt by Dudley London Sketch Club that we have the most vivid representations ofHardy both his physical appearance and eccentric mannerisms, frequently
depicted mid-oration, arms gesticulating wildly, hair on end andsporting an impressive Jimmy Finlayson-style soup-strainer moustache. Such was Hait6's habit ofspeech-making it made him a frequent target of affectionate ribbing from other members. At the time of
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Wis presidency the club's supper guests included Robert Baden-Powell and Arthur Conan Doyle withwhom Haiti shared a love of cricket.
After four years as president Haiti was persuaded to step down in 1902, after which the club would electa new president every year. Despite his previous desertion, Haiti was still welcomed at the LanghamSketching Club and would be re-elected its president one last time in 1908.191
Death and legacyIn 1883 George married Fanny Hodgkinson and settled in the new garden suburb of Bedford Park nearChiswick. He lived and worked at two separate addresses there, both of which he christened OrmsbyLodge. The couple had one daughter, Elsie Blanche Evelyn Frances Haiti (1889-1971). An invalid forthe last nine years of his life, Haiti died on 31 March 1924. His widow Fanny remained at OrmsbyLodge, The Avenue, Bedford Park until her death in 1935.
A selection of work by both Haiti and his namesake father can be viewed in the prints and drawingscollection of the Victoria and Albert museumn, Kensington, London.
External links" George Charles Haiti page at Artnet (http://www.arhetcom/art t2 1042/george-charles-
haitelitmi)" The London Sketch Club website (http://www.londonsketchclub.coni)" Victoria and Albert museum website (htt://www.vam.ac.uk)
Notes and referencesI. A Cuppleditch, David, The London Sketch Club. Alan Sutton Publishing. 1994. p 25.2. A Young, Hilary, Designs For ShawLs. Webb & Bower. 1988. p 12.
3.A Villiers, Frederic, Peaceful Personalities and Warriors Bold. Harper & Brothers. 1907. p 28.4.AVilliers, Frederic, Peaceful Piersonalities and Warriors Bold. Harper & Brothers. 1907. p 28.5A Who Was Who 1916-1 928, 1992 reprint: ISBN 0-7136-3143-0. A & C Black
6. A.Jordan, Denham. In The Green Leaf and the Sere. 1896. London. Thlbner & Co.7.A Villiers, Frederic, Peaceful Personalities and Warriors Bold. Harper & Brothers. 1907. p 29.
8. 1. bttpi/www.arvhive.org/details/booklets04clubgoog.9.A Cuppleditcb, David, The London Sketch Club. Alan Sutton Publishing. 1994.
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