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Christ and Pilate (Ecce Homo)
by Mihaly Munkacsy
​R Wallace Hester (engraver)

                       Research by Marjorie Gregson
Picture
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​​Engraver

Robert Wallace Hester was a British artist, engraver and caricaturist of some renown. He created many witty illustrations of famous people for Vanity Fair. There are 54 of his portraits in the National Gallery.
His father, Edward Gilbert Hester, was an engraver, working in Chiswick, and he taught his son the art of engraving.
Robert often used abbreviations and pseudonyms to sign his work: W. Hester, Hester and WH. He exhibited at the Salon des Artiste Francais in Paris from 1905.









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References
www.askart.com/Robert_Wallace_Hester
www.npg.org.uk
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators.

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    Acc No           190
    Artist               Munkácsy, Mihály   1844-1900
    Engraver         Hester, R Wallace  1866-1942
    Medium           Proof engraving, framed
    Size
    Donor               Mary Alice Hindle, 67 Laverton Road, Lytham St Annes
    Date donated   26 March 1956

   
ORIGINAL  PAINTING by
Mihaly Munkacsy  1844-1900

Mihali Leo Lieb was born in Mukachevo, Hungary in 1844 to German parents and took his pseudonym from the place of his birth. His early years were spent in poverty and working in slave labour.
In 1860, after becoming seriously ill, he went into the care of his uncle, who, noticing the boy’s superb drawing ability, apprenticed him to a portrait painter thus beginning Mihali’s formal training. By the age of 26 he had become a sensation with his first masterpiece The Last Day of a Condemned Man and went on to achieve an international reputation with his genre paintings and large scale biblical pictures.
Mihali’s life was to lead from one of abject poverty to meteoric superstardom and his stunning works hang in many great museums. His most famous masterpiece is known collectively as The Christ Trilogy. The paintings “enthralled the public with their massive scale and psychological insight”.
He died in a mental home in Bonn, Germany in 1900.
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References
https:// musings-on-art.org
www.mihalimunkacsy.org
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