Wallace Hester

{{Short description|British artist (1866–1942)}}

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File:Bishop of London Vanity Fair 22 May 1912.jpg 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.{{cite book|last1=Matthews|first1=Roy T. |last2=Mellini |first2=Peter|title=In "Vanity Fair"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phyjqx0SWm4C&pg=PA250 |year=1982 |publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-85967-597-0|pages=250–}}{{cite web|title=Hester, Wallace |url=https://www.classicbooksandephemera.com/advSearchResults.php?authorField=Wallace+Hester&action=search |publisher=Classic Books and Ephemera|accessdate=8 December 2016}}{{cite web|title=Robert Wallace Hester |url=http://www.allposters.co.uk/-st/Robert-Wallace-Hester-Posters_c184918_.htm|publisher=AllPosters|accessdate=8 December 2016}} He used the abbreviations and pseudonyms 'W. Hester', 'Hester', 'WH' and 'WH-'.{{cite web|title=(Richard) Wallace Hester ('W. Hester', 'Hester', 'WH' and 'WH-') |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp72778/richard-wallace-hester-w-hester-hester-wh-and-wh- |publisher=National Portrait Gallery, London |accessdate=8 December 2016}}

Wallace's father Edward Gilbert Hester was an engraver who worked in Chiswick, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1882 onwards. Edward taught Wallace the art of engraving. Wallace exhibited his work at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris from 1905.{{cite book|title=Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05C02RhJZCkC&pg=PA548 |year=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-992305-2 |pages=548–}}

As well as caricatures, Hester made engravings of school buildings.{{cite web|title=Radley College etching|url=http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14178/lot/404/|publisher=Bonhams}}