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George Charles Hait was an English designer, painter, illustrator and writer. His most famous work is the iconic cover design of the Strand Magazine, launched in 1891, which helped popularise the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. Hait was also a founder member and the first president of the London Sketch Club.
George Charles Hait was born in Bexleyheath, Kent, onJune 1855, the second child and eldest son of George Hait senior. His ancestors were French Huguenot immigrants, an awareness of which seems to have informed his later catchphrase that art holds no nationality.
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