A graduate of the Royal Academy and a member of the second wave of Pre-Raphaelites, Edward Hughes participated in his first Academy exhibition when he was only twenty-one or twenty-two. It was then that he met Edward Burne-Jones, whose paintings he deeply admired; they became friends, and Hughes’ inclination toward the Symbolist style was furthered by their association. Not long thereafter, however, Hughes’ fiancée died; badly hurt by his loss, he did not exhibit for another decade, and when he did return to the Academy exhibitions he showed only portraits. (His prolific portraiture probably sustained him throughout much of his career.) But the work he hung at the Grosvenor Gallery and the Royal Watercolour Society’s exhibitions was of the sort for which he is now best remembered—Pre-Raphaelite in tenor and technique, Symbolist in its metaphorical representation of the sacred. In his later years, Hughes (1849–1914) was known for furthering young artists’ careers; he was celebrated for his lectures as well as for his watercolor and gouache paintings, and enjoyed tenure as vice president of the Watercolour Society. Upon his death, friends formed a memorial committee that purchased what is now his best-known work—Night and Her Train of Stars—and donated it to the Birmingham Art Gallery. Ten full-color 5 x 7" blank notecards (5 each of 2 styles) with envelopes in a decorative folio. ISBN 0-7649-3305-1 |
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