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Uncertainty Print by Arthur Hughes

Uncertainty

Fair Rosamund Print by Arthur Hughes

Fair Rosamund

An Ayrshire Glen Print by Arthur Hughes

An Ayrshire Glen

Poll the Milkmaid Print by Arthur Hughes

Poll the Milkmaid

Study for Sir Galahad. The Quest for the Holy Grail Print by Arthur Hughes

Study for Sir Galahad. The Quest for the Holy Grail

Sunday Print by Arthur Hughes

Sunday

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April Love

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The rendezvous

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Asleep in the Woods

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Overthrowing of the Rusty Knight

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A Spring Afternoon

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Endymion

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Lucy Hill

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Home From Sea

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The King's Orchard

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The Annunciation

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The Nativity

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Knight of the Sun

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The Woodman's Child

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Home From Work

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That was a Piedmontese

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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The Young Poet

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The Rift Within the Lute

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A Music Party

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Mrs James Leathart and Children

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In the Grass

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Self Portrait

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Good Night later version

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The Guarded Bower

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Sir Galahad - the Quest of the Holy Grail

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A Birthday Picnic

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The Pained Heart

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Poll the Milkmaid

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A Christmas Carol at Bracken Dene

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The Sailing Signal Gun

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Portrait of William Bell Scott

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Phyllis

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Little one who straight has come Down the Heavenly Stairs

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The Door of Mercy

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Portrait of an Elderly Woman

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He Is Risen

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Overthrowing of the Rusty Knight

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Mrs Norman Hill and Children

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Forget Me Not

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The Rescue

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Benedick in the Arbor

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The Long Engagement

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Edward Robert Hughes as a Child

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Fair Rosamund Print by Arthur Hughes

Fair Rosamund

Arthur Hughes (27 January 1832 – 22 December 1915), was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Biography

Hughes was born in London. In 1846 he entered the art school at Somerset House, his first master being Alfred Stevens, and later entered the Royal Academy schools. Here he met John Everett Millais and Holman Hunt, and became one of the Pre-Raphaelite group of painters. His first picture, Musidora, was hung at the Royal Academy when he was only 17, and thenceforth he contributed almost annually not only to the Royal Academy but later also to the Grosvenor and New Gallery exhibitions.[1]

In 1855 Hughes married Tryphena Foord, his model for April Love. Hughes died in Kew Green, London in 1915, leaving about 700 known paintings and drawings, along with over 750 book illustrations. Following the death of Tryphena Hughes in 1921, their daughter Emily had to move to a smaller house. There was, therefore, a shortage of space. As a result she had her father’s remaining preparatory sketches, and all his private papers and correspondence, destroyed. He was the uncle of the English painter Edward Robert Hughes.

Works

His best-known paintings are April Love and The Long Engagement, both of which depict troubled couples contemplating the transience of love and beauty. They were inspired by John Everett Millais's earlier "couple" paintings but place far greater emphasis on the pathos of human inability to maintain the freshness of youthful feeling in comparison to the regenerative power of nature.

Like Millais, Hughes also painted an Ophelia and illustrated Keats's poem The Eve of St. Agnes. Hughes's version of the latter is in the form of a secular triptych, a technique he repeated for scenes from Shakespeare's As You Like It. His works are noted for their magical, glowing colouring and delicate draughtsmanship.

The beautiful oil portrait Springtide, first exhibited in Dublin in 1855, features his wife Tryphena.

Hughes was in close contact with the writer George MacDonald and illustrated some of his books, as well as producing numerous illustrations for Norman MacLeod's monthly magazine, Good Words.
See also

List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings - includes catalogue of Arthur Hughes' work with links to individual painting's articles.
List of British painters

Notes

One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Hughes, Arthur". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York.

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