Wallace Hester
Illustration — Caricature of the Bishop of London, Vanity Fair, 1912, by Wallace Hester Robert Wallace Hester (1866 – 1942) was a British artist, engraver and caricaturist who made witty illustrations of famous people for Vanity Fair. He used the abbreviations and pseudonyms 'W. Hester', 'Hester', 'WH' and 'WH-'. Wallace's father Edward Gilbert Hester was an engraver who worked in Chiswick, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1882 onwards.
Also recorded as Robert Wallace Hester · R. Wallace Hester · Richard Wallace Hester
Wallace Hester
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- 1866
- Died
- 1942
- Occupation
- cartoonist · caricaturist
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Illustration — Caricature of the Bishop of London, Vanity Fair, 1912, by Wallace Hester Robert Wallace Hester (1866 – 1942) was a British artist, engraver and caricaturist who made witty illustrations of famous people for Vanity Fair. He used the abbreviations and pseudonyms 'W. Hester', 'Hester', 'WH' and 'WH-'. Wallace's father Edward Gilbert Hester was an engraver who worked in Chiswick, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1882 onwards.
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Wallace exhibited his work at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris from 1905.
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- 1.Matthews, Roy T. In "Vanity Fair". University of California Press. 250–. 1982. 978-0-85967-597-0.
- 2.Classic Books and Ephemera. Hester, Wallace.
- 3.AllPosters. Robert Wallace Hester.
- 4.National Portrait Gallery, London. (Richard) Wallace Hester ('W. Hester', 'Hester', 'WH' and 'WH-').
- 5.Oxford University Press. Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. 548–. 2012. 978-0-19-992305-2.
- 6.Bonhams. Radley College etching.
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