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Arthur Hughes Biography

English Pre-Raphaelite artist
born 1832 - died 1915

Arthur Hughes showed early artistic promise and enrolled in the Royal Academy Antique School in 1847. He was encouraged by Millais, who was always an affable individual. He was inspired directly by The Germ, the short-lived Pre-Raphaelite magazine. Arthur Hughes attended PRB meetings, in rather a junior hero-worshipping manner. He was liked by the PRB, in fact he was throughout his long life, a well liked individual. He was also encouraged by Rossetti.

Arthur Hughes main traits as an individual were his modesty and self-effacement. He suffered somewhat at the hands of the Royal Academy, having a number of ill-merited rejections, and very badly hung pictures.

He was never even elected an Associate. Hughes married, in 1855 Tryphena Foord, the union was lasting, and happy. As well as the limits imposed by his diffidence and modesty, he was motivated by the desire for a stable, happy family life. Ultimately Arthur Hughes was prepared to compromise artistic ambitions for this. Many of his pictures were of ordinary scenes of life. They were painted with great delicacy, and feeling, and were often in greens and mauves.

Like the great orchestral composers, the warm sympathetic character of the man shines through in his work. William Michael Rossetti, writing about Arthur Hughes said “If I had to pick out, from my once numerous acquaintances of the male sex, the sweetest and most ingenuous nature of all, the least carking and querulous, and the freest from envy hatred and malice, and all uncharitableness, I should probably find myself bound to select Mr Arthur Hughes.” Should any human being have a better character reference, or epitaph than this I have yet to see it.

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. What an appalling act of artistic and historical vandalism!