Arthur Hughes (27 January 1832 – 22 December 1915) was a Former Raphaelite painter and illustrator.
Hughes was born in London. In 1846 he entered the art school at Somerset Palace and later into the school of the Royal Academy. Here he met John Everett Millais and Holman Hunt, one of the pre-Raphaelite painters.
In 1855, Hughes married his model Trilfina Ford, who wrote for April Love. Hughes died in London in 1915, leaving behind about 700 known paintings and drawings, as well as more than 750 book illustrations. After the death of Trefina Hughes in 1921, their daughter Emily had to move to a smaller house. Therefore, there is not enough space. As a result, she destroyed her father's remaining prepared drafts, as well as all his private documents and letters. He was the father of the English painter Arthur Ford Hughes and the uncle of another painter, Edward Robert Hughes.
April Love (1856)
His most famous works are April Love and The Long Marriage, both of which depict a troubled couple thinking about love and beauty in a fleeting moment. They were inspired by john Everett Millais' early "couple" paintings, but they place more emphasis on the inability of humans to maintain the freshness of youthful sensations than nature's regenerative capacity.
The Long Wedding (1859)
Like Milles, Hughes painted Ophelia from the Toledo Museum of Art and illustrated Keats' poem The Night of St. Agnes. Hughes's version of the latter is in the form of a secular triptych, which he repeats in Shakespeare's The Great Joy of All. His work is known for its magical, vivid colors and exquisite painting style.
Ophelia (1852)
The oil painting The Tide of Spring, first exhibited in Dublin in 1855, depicts his wife Trefina. Hughes maintained close ties with the writer George MacDonald, illustrating some of his works and illustrating extensively for Norman MacLeod's monthly magazine Good Words.
The Tide of Spring
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