Need Help Identifying Artist and Drawing Name

I have a print of a drawing that I need help identifying. I don't know anything about it, and I can't even make out the name in the bottom corner. I thought it was "Eli Heston", but nothing comes up in Google.

Thanks in advance.

 

Perhaps ELL HESTER, as here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SET-OF-3-SI...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

Work appears to be copies or reinterpretations of Delft "Golden Age" paintings. Here, for instance is a painting by Pieter de Hooch.

Debora

 

I think it might be Edward Gilbert Hester, who I think was an engraver.
http://www.nationaltrustcollections...Gilbert+Hester+(c.1843+%u2013+St+Albans+1903)

 

Hmmmm interesting. I think Ell Hester would seem the most likely, going by the fact they have been listed on Ebay as that. Although now I'm wondering if it's Edward Hester instead :/

 

It is a Pieter de Hooch

 

I see it as E. M. Hester, and so far have found no info about the artist but did find prints in the British Museum site that have that name.

Dated 1906:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/resear...object_details.aspx?objectId=3431530&partId=1

Dated 1911:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/resear...artId=1&people=101616&peoA=101616-2-60&page=1

 

Look at individual pictures to the left of this page:
https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/3330942_em-hester-two-pencil-signed-mezzotints-depict

 

Coming back to this thread... After going through many references to E. M. Hester with no further information, I just found a reference referring to Miss E. M. Hester as an engraver of mezzotints. This is from a publication called The Builder, from 1906. She is mentioned near the bottom of the far right column on this page:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Mj9OAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA461&lpg=PA461&dq="e.+m.+hester"+engraver&source=bl&ots=TwtBl7OFYO&sig=C37T4Ry2IOqplO_1EdxtbFf0EKQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif4OK4rc_QAhVp2IMKHQb_A7E4ChDoAQg6MAc#v=onepage&q="e. m. hester" engraver&f=false

The reason I am investigating this is the suggestion that it might be Edward Gilbert Hester. Besides the fact that his middle initial was "G" instead of "M" I am finding that most of the dated pieces by E. M. Hester include dates after 1903, which was when Edward Gilbert Hester died. (Wild thought: I wonder whether E. M. Hester was related to Edward Gilbert Hester?)

 

Not such a wild thought; in fact almost certainly correct. Edward Gilbert Hester had a daughter called Edith Mary Hester, whose ocupation is gven as "Artist Engraver" in the 1901 census.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJ8W-GF4
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS4D-J31

 

Great! Familysearch to the rescue -- It's a great site.

 

How cool is THAT!!!!!!!!!! Nice find Architrave!!!!!!