Arthur Hughes (British, 1832-1915)
The London born Arthur Hughes studied at the Somerset House School under Alfred Stevens and later at the Royal Academy Schools were he met Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. Together Hughes and Rossetti helped create the mural of the Oxford Union.
Hughes became influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite ideals as a result of reading their briefly published magazine, The Germ, which was introduced to him by fellow School of Painting sculptor, Alexander Munro. He would become one of the second generation Pre-Raphaelites along with Edward Burne-Jones and John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope.
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At one point in his painting career Hughes would experiment with painting by candle and lantern light after being effected by William Holman Hunt's Light of the World, for which Hunt had spent months sleeping by day and painting outdoors at night to capture correct lighting and shadow.The subject of Hughes paintings was primarily love following the themes of the Brotherhood, such as April Love, which was inspired by Alfred Tennyson's poem The Miller's Daughter, though he retired in 1858 the Brotherhood's sessions. He also illustrated many books several of which were children's stories of nursery rhymes and fairy tales. His brilliant use of color made him one of the more outstanding artists of this genre.
Arthur Hughes Selected Paintings
- A Music Party 1864- A Sussex Cliff
- Afternoon Sleep
- Alice Boyd & W.B. Scott in the Banqueting Hall in Penkill Castle
- April Love 1855-56
- Asleep in the Woods
- At the Church Gate
- Audrey's toilet 1897
- Ayrshire Glen 1894
- Beauty and the Beast 1863-65
- Birthday Picnic - Children of William & Anne Pattinson of Felling
- Boats going out
- By the riverside
- Cattle in a Clifftop Meadow
- Choirboys in the Cloisters 1910
- Cliff Searchers
- Coastal Scene
- Cows Grazing by the Coast
- Endymion 1868-70
- Enid and Geraint
- Fairlight Down, Sussex
- Fishing fleet off Porthleven, South Cornwall
- Flowery Corner
- Forget me not
- Friends
- Godrevy Light
- Good Night 1865-66
- Gunard's Head from St Ives
- Gurnards Head, from St. Ives side
- Harnessing the Donkey
- Harvesting
- Hilly landscape 1907
- Home from the Market
- Home From the Sea 1856-57
- Home from Work
- In the Grass 1864-5
- Knight of the Sun circa 1861
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci 1861-3
- Lady Three Quarter Length, seated, with an Oriental Screen behind
- Llandawrg Church
- Lucy Hill 1888
- Madeleine
- Mariana at the window c.1860s
- Noonday
- North Cornwall 1890
- Ophelia 1851-53
- Ophelia and He Will Not Come Again 1863-64
- Orlando
- Overthrowing of the Rusty Knight circa 1908
- Paesaggio con somarelli
- Peacock perched on a sundial with trees behind
- Pentire, Cornwall
- Perpan Point, Cornwall
- Picking up seaweed
- Portrait of Mrs Louisa Jenner, full-Length, in a blue Dress 1867
- Portrait of William Bell Scott
- Pothleven, South Cornwall
- Property Room «To Look beyond the Stage, Thy Life is but Another Page
- Reigning the Donkey in
- Reigning the Donkey in
- Returning Home
- Rocky Point, Enis Head, South Cornwall
- Sigh no more, Ladies
- Sigh no more, Ladies
- Silver and gold
- Sir Galahad 1865-70
- Sir Galahad circa 1894
- Sketch for Threads of Fate
- Sketches for the stone-breaker Father's boots
- Spring Afternoon
- Summer Landscape
- Summer Pasture
- Sweet Lavender
- The Adoration
- The Blessing of Youth and Age 1911
- The Boatman's Lass
- The Convent Boat 1874
- The convent
- The crow-scarer - Pigeons and crows, take care of your toes 1884
- The Enchantress circa 1870-4
- The Enchantress
- The Gardens at Penkill Castle with Alice Boyd walking her dog, Ogier 1886
- The Heavenly Stair circa 1887-8
- The King's Orchard
- The Knight of the Sun
- The Lady of Shalott c.1863
- The Lady of Shalott c.1872-3
- The Long Engagement 1859
- The Mower
- The old Neighbour gone before: a Street Episode in Brittany 1878-1879
- The Overthrowing of the Rusty Knight
- The Pet of the Farm
- The Property Room 1879
- The Rescue 1907-8
- The sailing signal gun
- The staircase at Penkill Castle
- The yellow Sand 1891
- Twilight, Sussex
- Visit to Grandmother
- Will o' the Wisp
- William Bell Scott, in a Black Coat, after David Scott
- Wonderland 1912
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