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Arthur Hughes
April Love
1855-56
Tate Gallery, London
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Arthur Hughes
Gareth Helps Lyonors and Overthrows the Red Knight
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Arthur Hughes
Sweet Lavender (mk37)
oil on panel
22 1/2x12 1/8in
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Arthur Hughes
April Love
1855-6
Oil on canvas 88.9 x 49.5cm
(35 x 19 1/2 in)
Tate Gallery London (mk63)
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Arthur Hughes
The Long Engagement
1853-9
Oil on canvas 105.4 x 52.1 cm
(41 1/2 x 20 1/2in)
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (mk63)
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Arthur Hughes
Home from Sea
1856-62
Oil on canvas 50.8 x 65.1 cm
(20 x 25 5/8 in)
Ashmolean Museum Oxford (mk63)
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Arthur Hughes
The Quest of the Holy Grail
mk178
1870
oils on linen
113x167.6cm
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Arthur Hughes
Enid and Geraint
mk221
1862
Oil on canvas
26x37.5cm
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Arthur Hughes
Ophelia
mk231
1852
Oil on canvas
68.6x123.8cm
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Arthur Hughes
April Love
mk231
88.9x49.5cm
1856
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Arthur Hughes
The Sailing Signal Gun
Date 1880-81
cyf
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Arthur Hughes
Sailing Signal Gun
English: The Sailing Signal Gun
Date 1880-81
cyf
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Arthur Hughes
Ophelia
Date ca. 1851 - 53
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 27 x 48 3-4 in
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Arthur Hughes
Ophelia
Date c. 1863 - 64
Medium oil on canvas
TTD
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1832-1915
British
Arthur Hughes Gallery
Hughes was born in London. His best-known paintings are April Love and The Long Engagement, both of which depict troubled couples contemplating the transience of love and beauty. They were inspired by John Everett Millais's earlier "couple" paintings but place far greater emphasis on the pathos of human inability to maintain the freshness of youthful feeling in comparison to the regenerative power of nature.
Like Millais, Hughes also painted an Ophelia and illustrated Keats's poem The Eve of St. Agnes. Hughes's version of the latter is in the form of a secular triptych, a technique he repeated for scenes from Shakespeare's As You Like It.
His works are noted for their magical, glowing colouring and delicate draughtsmanship.
Hughes was in close contact with the writer George MacDonald and illustrated some of his books as well as producing numerous illustrations for Norman MacLeod's monthly magazine, Good Words.
Hughes died in Kew Green, London, leaving about 700 known paintings and drawings, along with over 750 book illustrations.
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