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Arthur Hughes

Arthur Hughes joined the School of Design at Somerset House, London under Alfred Stevens. The following year he won an art studentship to the Royal Academy Schools, where in 1849 he won the silver medal for antique drawing. He debuted at the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1849. In 1850 he saw a copy of the periodical 'The Germ', which converted him to Pre-Raphaelitism and led to his meeting Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Madox Brown. Although he never became an official member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, its influence becomes immediately apparent with the painting of "Ophelia' in 1851, 'Veille de Sainte Agnes' in 1854 and 'Amour d'Avril' in 1856. Hughes was called to collaborate on 'The Death of Arthur' as part of Rossetti's scheme of mural decorations at the Oxford Union, on which Burne Jones and Morris also worked. Hughes executed his works with meticulous care in every detail.

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