Harry Eliott, born Charles Edmond Hermet on June 14, 1882 in Paris and died on May 25, 1959 in Villez-sous-Bailleul, was a French designer and illustrator, also a watercolor painter. The son of a lithographer and passionate about England, he adopted an Anglo-Saxon pseudonym at a very early age and tried to pass himself off as English.
He is known for his humorous stencil prints depicting horsemen, hunting scenes, monks and other subjects, inspired by the English illustrators Randolph Caldecott and Cecil Aldin. His engravings and postcards are published by Barré and Dayez.
At the beginning of the 20th century, he also illustrated magazines and children's books: David Copperfield and The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick by Dickens, White Fang by Jack London, Bari chien loup by James Oliver Curwood, as well as the works of Magdeleine du Genestoux and Jérôme Doucet. From 1923 to 1940, he collaborated on the catalogs of Manufrance and created several covers for the monthly Le Chasseur français.
Mobilized in 1914, he settled in Normandy after his marriage in 1915 and a stint in England. Suffering from blindness and alcohol-related problems, he died in destitution in 1959, leaving behind a body of work sought after by lovers of hunting, horses, and classical illustration.
