Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) is a well known Pre-Raphaelite English painter. Some of his best known works are Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train of Stars. Hughes was the nephew of Arthur Hughes. He was also an assistant to William Holman Hunt. He helped Hunt with the version of The Light of the World now in St. Paul's Cathedral. He often used watercolor/gouache. 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. ... Arthur Hughes was born circa 1894 and became an actor, first on the stage and, later, on radio in the 1930s and 1940s. ... William Holman Hunt - Self-Portrait. ... The Light of the World The Light of the World (1853–4) is an allegorical painting by William Holman Hunt representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, symbolic of the human conscience. ... St Pauls Cathedral is a cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London in London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. ...