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Arthur Hughes was an English painter and illustrator of portraits and landscapes, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, whom he belonged to during all his lifetime.
Born: 27 January 1832 in London
Died: 22 December 1915 in London
Already at the age of 14, Arthur Hughes begins to study painting with the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens. A year later, he moves on to the Royal Academy where he studies with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. His connection with these two classmates already indicates the artistic direction, which makes all three of them members of the Brotherhood of the Pre-Raphaelites. In the year 1852, Hughes completes his studies and, four years later, he earns broad approval of his fellow art colleagues with his painting “April Love”, a large-scale whole-body portrait of a young woman. Due to his fidelity to the romantic, sentimental-transfigured motives of the Pre-Raphaelites, to which he also remains connected after the dissolution of the group, he is a rated as a silent textbook example of this brotherhood.
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Oil Paintings