Modern life reflection on Arthur Hughes' paintings

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

Modern life reflection on Arthur Hughes' paintings 

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. 

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.

 

Old Neighbour Gone Bye

A Music Party

Mrs. Grant Duff And Adrian

Wonderland

Edward Robert Hughes As A Child

The King’s Orchard

Mrs. Norman Hill And Children

The Heavenly Stair

A Visit to Grandmother

Marjorie And Lettice Wormald

The Rescue

A Birthday Picnic

A Christmas Carol At Bracken Dene

Home Quartet (Mrs. Vernon Lushington And Her Daughters)

The Children Of George Birkbeck Hill

Mother And Child In The Garden

Mrs. James Leathart And Children

The Pet Of The Farm

The Lost Child

Cecily Ursula, Aged Three

Home From Work

The Woodman’s Child

The Font

The Mower

The Nativity