EDWARD ROBERT HUGHES, VPRWS (1851-1914)
Edward Robert Hughes was born in London on 5 November 1851. He studied under his uncle Arthur Hughes and at the Royal Academy Schools, and then helped William Holman Hunt to complete some of his later works. He also knew both Edward Burne-Jones and George Macdonald, and was engaged to Macdonald's daughter before her early death. Thus he was close to the late Pre-Raphaelite circle, and remained close to its principles in both his symbolic watercolours and chalk portraits. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours and especially at the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours, to which he was elected a member (ARWs 1891, RWs 1895, and acting as VPRWS between 1901 and 1903). For some years he was a popular teacher at London County Council evening classes. He lived in London and, from 1913, in St Albans where he died on 23 April 1914.
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