Edward Gilbert Hester
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Robert Wallace Hester (1866 – 1942) was a British artist, engraver and
caricaturist A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. List of caricaturists * Abed Abdi (born 1942) * Abril Lamarque (1904–1999) * Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) * Alex Gard (1900–1948) * Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977) * Alfre ...
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
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, exhibiting at the
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from 1882 onwards. Edward taught Wallace the art of engraving. Wallace exhibited his work at the ''Salon des Artistes Français'' in Paris from 1905. As well as caricatures, Hester made engravings of school buildings.


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National Portrait Gallery
(54 portraits)
National Trust
(2 paintings)


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hester, Wallace 1866 births 1942 deaths British engravers British caricaturists Vanity Fair (British magazine) artists