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

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Harriette Sutcliffe and her natural paintings influences

Little is known about Miss Harriette F. A. Sutcliffe although we do know that she lived and worked in Hampstead, England. She was a painter of portraits and genre and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1881 and 1899. She remained active as an artist until 1907 and died in 1922. 

Harriette Sutcliffe and her natural paintings influences 

Sutcliffe’s favourite subjects were children, especially with an emphasis on innocence and beauty, a popular topic in Victorian England not only in painting but also in literature.  The concept of childhood changed considerably over the 19th Century. Whereas previously children had been exposed to the hardships and responsibilities of adult life, the Victorians believed that childhood should be a protected state of innocence and dependence. 

This idea was probably brought about as a reaction to the severe hardships suffered by many working class children at the time, although it is a concept that we have maintained to the present day. 

“After the Bath” was donated to the city by George McCulloch in 1904, the year that the present art collection was first begun. The Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery is the oldest in country New South Wales. The painting is one of the most popular works in the gallery.

Her New Brown Shoes

Gathering Plums

girl with manchester terrier

Girl in a vegetable garden

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All time best creative creation of Charles Burton Barber on baby with nature

Charles Burton Barber (1845–1894), was an English painter who attained great success with his paintings of children and their pets. Barber was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and studied from the age of 18 at the Royal Academy, London - receiving a silver medal for drawing in 1864, and first exhibiting there in 1866.

All time best creative creation of Charles Burton Barber on baby with nature

During his lifetime Barber was regarded as one of England's finest animal painters and received commissions from Queen Victoria to do paintings of her with grandchildren and dogs,[1] and also the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and his pets. A number of his portraits are in the Royal Collection. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1866 to 1893. In 1883 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

Barber became a very popular sporting and animal painter, specialising particularly in sentimental portraits of dogs, often with children. His work ranged from photographically realistic to quick sketches. Although some have regarded his work as overly sentimental, his work remains popular, largely because of his competent painting.

Barber received his final commission in 1894 to paint Queen Victoria, with her grandchildren, in her pony-carriage. He died in London soon afterwards. His place as foremost painter of children and pets was taken by Arthur Elsley.

Many of Barber’s paintings were made into prints, usually in the medium of photogravure. He exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Walker Art Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery. Much of his art is at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight.

A Little Girl And Her Sheltie

A Special Pleader

In Disgrace

Suspense (Saying Our Prayers)

 

Serenade (The Broken String)

A Mischievous Puppy

Time To Wake Up

Compulsory Education

 

Off To School

In Disgrace

Monster (The Tiger Girl With Pug)

Any Port In A Storm

 

The Little Baker With Her Two Assistants

The Hiding Place

 

My First Partner

 

Girl With Dogs

 

No Ride Today

 

The New Whip

 

Playmates 

 

The Sisters Of Charity

 

Vandaleur Brightsmith And His Sister

 

Cat dog and babydoll

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Evergreen Painting works of the great Marie Spartali Stillman

Marie Euphrosyne Spartali, later Stillman (10 March 1844 – 6 March 1927), was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter of Greek descent, arguably the greatest female artist of that movement. During a sixty-year career she produced over one hundred works, contributing regularly to exhibitions in Great Britain and the United States.

Evergreen Painting works of the great Marie Spartali Stillman

Maria Spartali was the eldest daughter of Michael Spartali (1818–1914), a wealthy merchant, principal of the firm Spartali & Co and Greek consul-general based in London from 1866 to 1882. He had moved to London around 1828. In London he married Euphrosyne (known as Effie, née Varsami, 1842–1913), the daughter of a Greek merchant from Genoa.

The family lived in their Georgian country house with a marble-pillared circular hallway, on Clapham Common, known as 'The Shrubbery' with a huge garden and views over the Thames and Chelsea. In the summer months they moved to their country house on the Isle of Wight where her father developed the cultivation of grapes on his lands. In London, her father was fond of lavish garden parties where he invited up and coming young writers and artists of his day.

La Pensierosa

The Childhood Of Saint Cecily

The Enchanted Garden

Effie Holding A Lily And A Posy Of Roses

Afternoon In The Colonna Garden, Rome

Dante and Beatrice

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