Edward Robert Hughes

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Edward Robert Hughes: The Valkyrie's Night Watch

Edward Robert Hughes ( November 5, 1851 - April 23, 1914 in St Albans ) was an English painter who worked in the Pre-Raphaelite and Aestheticist styles .

His best known works are Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train of Stars . Hughes was a nephew of Arthur Hughes and supported William Holman Hunt in his studio. He often used a combination of watercolor and gouache . In 1891 he was elected to the Royal Watercolor Society and, as work to achieve full membership, he chose a mystical theme inspired by a poem by Christina Rossetti 's Amor Mundi . He experimented with sophisticated painting techniques and was a perfectionist. He made numerous studies for his paintings, some of which were ripe for exhibition.

Hughes was assistant to William Holman Hunt for a while when he was of advanced age. He helped the frail Hunt on the version of The Light of the World , now on display in St Paul's Cathedral , and on The Lady of Shalott . Hughes died on April 23, 1914 in his country house (no. 3 Romeland) in St. Albans, Hertfordshire .

His work can be seen in various publicly accessible collections, including the Bradford Museums and Galleries, Cambridge & County Folk Museum, Maidstone Museum, Bruce Castle Museum, Kensington & Chelsea Local Studies, Birmingham Art Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston and the National Trust for Scotland .

The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery hosted a Hughes retrospective entitled Enchanted Dreams: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Edward Robert Hughes from October 17, 2015 to February 21, 2016 .

  • Edward Robert Hughes

  • The quarrelsome Katherina

  • Midsummer Eve (around 1908)

  • Bertucciova nevesta (1895)

  • Snow Heart

  • Summer fantasy

  • Night with her Train of Stars

literature

  • Rodney Engen: The Twilight of Edward Robert Hughes RWS (Watercolors & Drawings), January 1990

Web links

Commons : Edward Robert Hughes  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition announcement, accessed on September 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Edward Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1851
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1914
Place of death St Albans