Portrait of an entomologist – Eustace Frederic Wallis (1869–1946)

An illustrated biographical sketch of the entomologist Eustace Wallis whose oil portrait image was captured, net in hand, by his brother Hugh Wallis, a noted Arts and Crafts painter is presented. Eustace, a solicitor by training, specialised initially on the Lepidoptera of Northamptonshire before shifting his attention to Diptera and Hymenoptera. His notebooks are lavishly illustrated with water-colour images of insects, demonstrating his own high skills as an artist. He was also an inventor with several patents to his name, a lecturer, and a would-be Labour politician.