Edward Robert Hughes
1849-1914
English Victorian Painter and Illustrator, Chiefly Associated with
the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB)
Artistically and
stylistically influenced the following painters and art periods;
Early
Renaissance,
Byzantine Style,
Gothic Era
Painting,
Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William
Holman Hunt and
John Everett
Millais
Education - Royal Academy School and later studio assistant to William Holman Hunt
Mediums - watercolour/gouache/oil
Cause of Death - infection after undergoing an operation at the age of 61.
|
|
|
Edward Robert Hughes Quotations
"When an idea seems to revolutionize the world, it is really you that
is changing. "-- Edward Robert Hughes
Edward Robert Hughes Biography and things you probably didn't know..
Edward Robert Hughes was born in London on November the 5th 1849
From 1901-1903 Edward Hughes was president of the Royal Watercolor Society
History and Founding of The Pre-Raphaelites
The term Pre-Raphaelites refers to High Renaissance artist Raphael. Some members of the PRB referred to Raphael's work utter rubbish and criticized his decadent themes and depraved lifestyle. Raphael, although one of the greatest painters in the history of art, died of syphilis and was known as a drunkard and rough. This did not sit well with the PRB painters who believed that only a morally pure artist could produce morally pure art. Dante Rossetti and the other (PRB) artists embraced the artistic manner of Mediaeval and Early Renaissance painters; Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Paolo Veneziano, Andrea del Verrocchio and Giotto Bondone. The (PRB) felt that these painters infused their works with spiritual symbolism, godliness and sacred themes. John Ruskin, famous Victorian Art Critic and major influence on the PRB advised "The complete painters, we find, have brought dimness and mystery into their method of colouring. That means that the world all round them has resolved to dream, or to believe, no more; but to know, and to see. And instantly all knowledge and sight are given, no more as in the Gothic times, through a window of glass, brightly, but as through a telescope-glass, darkly. "
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was founded in 1848. The most important artist was a handsome and charming painter named Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Rossetti and his chums, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, rejected Neoclassical and High Renaissance art and embraced the spiritually infused works of the Early Renaissance, Byzantine Style and Gothic painters. They sought to created a new artistic style using biblical, mythological, and literary imagery as the subjects of their art-works. Their paintings often contain obscure visual symbols and secret riddles.
|
The idealistic Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painters wanted to change the world with their art, much like the hippies of the 1960s. They scorned the pretentious conventionality of the Victorian era. They sought a return to spirituality, courtliness, brotherly love and spiritual passion. They rebelled against the unbridled materialism and rampant hypocrisy that was typical of the Victorian middle and upper classes.
|
Edward Robert Hughes
Favorite Themes
Fairies
femme fatale
Italian themes
historical themes
literary themes
Writers who influenced Edward Robert Hughes
Goethe
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
John Keats
Shakespeare
Coventry Patmore
Charles Dickens
Tennyson
Dinah Maria Mulock
Require more information about Edward Robert
Hughes
in Art History? Type your query in art into the google search box below and poke
around every nook and cranny of the known universe for information
this subject.
Do you know something we don't? If you have comment or would like to share an insight regarding Edward Robert Hughes in Art History, please submit your comment to the editor, via e-mail and if possible site the source. Thank you!
© HistoryofPainters.com If you like this page and wish to share
it, you are welcome to link to it, with our thanks.
| links | artist biographies | top 50 painters | art supplies | book store |
| site map | art movements | artist quotations | iconography | 100 greatest paintings |