 April Love, 1856. This depicts a young woman watching falling blossoms, pondering the fragility of love as her beloved bends down to kiss her hand Arthur Hughes (27 January 1831 –23 December 1915), was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1576x2846, 311 KB) Description: Title: de: Aprilliebe Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 89 × 49,5 cm Country of origin: de: Großbritanien Current location (city): de: London Current location (gallery): de: Tate Gallery Other notes: de: In Nachfolge der...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1576x2846, 311 KB) Description: Title: de: Aprilliebe Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 89 × 49,5 cm Country of origin: de: Großbritanien Current location (city): de: London Current location (gallery): de: Tate Gallery Other notes: de: In Nachfolge der...
April Love is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes which was created between 1855 and 1856. ...
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Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ...
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ...
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Persephone, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ...
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 are imitations of 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. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Sir John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (June 8, 1829 – August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator who was one of founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. ...
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. John William Waterhouses painting Ophelia (1894) Ophelia is a character from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. ...
The family name Keats, a surname of England is believed to be descended originally from the Anglo Saxon race from old English word cyta or cyte which has been used to describe a worker at the shed, outhouse for animals, hence herdsman. ...
The Eve of St. ...
The Raising of the Cross, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp A triptych (from the Greek tri- three + ptychē fold) is a work of art (usually a panel painting) which is divided into three sections, or three carved panels which are hinged together. ...
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Scene from As you like it, Francis Hayman, c. ...
His works are noted for their magical, glowing colouring and delicate draughtsmanship.
Hughes was in close contact to the writer George MacDonald and illustrated some of his books. George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. ...
Hughes died in Kew Green, London, leaving about 700 known paintings and drawings, along with over 750 book illustrations.
See also
- List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings - includes catalogue of Arthur Hughes' work with links to individual painting's articles.
- List of British painters
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The following is a partial list of British painters (in chronological order): George Gower (1540-1596) Nicolas Hilliard (1547-1619) Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) (born Flemish) William Dobson (1610-1646) John Michael Wright (1617-1694) Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734) John Wootton (1682-1764) John Vanderbank (1694-1739...
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