E.R. Hughes

Date of Birth

• Edward Robert Hughes was born in 1851, London. 

Assistance

• He was a nephew to William Holman Hunt.
• Later on, Hughes help him with St. Paul's version of The Light Of The World

Best Art Pieces

• His best art pieces were Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train Of Stars.
• Most of his pieces were based on midnight fantasies.

Style Of Art

• Robert Hughes would often use watercolor/gouache.
• You can usually see the smooth coloration in his pieces.

Diploma

• He was elected ARWS in 1891.
• ARWS means Associate Royal Watercolor Society.
• After he was elected, he was bound to making mystical pieces inspired by 
• Christina Rossetti's Armor Mundi.

Exhibition

• Robert Hughes experimented with many techniques and became a perfectionist.
• Doing numerous studies for his paintings, some of them became detailed 
• enough for display.

Themes

• Many of his themes included nature, but others were miscellaneous. 
• His favorite theme to watercolor were dense forests or hillsides.

Museums

• Many museums hold his artwork.
• They are:
• Cambridge and County Folk Museum
• Maidstone Museum
• Bruce Castle Museum and several others

Galleries

• Many galleries display his pieces too, including:
• Bimingham Art Gallery
• The Harris Museum and Art Gallery
• And so does Oxford

Death

• Edgar Robert Hughes died on the 23rd of April, 1914.
• The building he died in was his cottage.

Black Vanilla

Night With Her Train Of Stars