Born in London, Hughes trained as an artist at the School of Design at Somerset House, where he was the pupil of the sculptor Alfred Stevens (1823 - 1906). In 1847 he won a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy Schools, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849. 

In the 1850s and 1860s Hughes produced a series of modern-life subjects. The most famous was 'Home from Sea' (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), showing a sailor boy returned from sea crying on the grave of his dead mother. Hughes also had a successful career as an illustrator, providing plates for works of poetry by Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) and Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894). His later works have less poetic intensity or technical mastery than his earlier ones, but remain distinctive and charming.

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Born in London, Hughes trained as an artist at the School of Design at Somerset House, where he was the pupil of the sculptor Alfred Stevens (1823 - 1906). In 1847 he won a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy Schools, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849. In the 1850s and 1860s Hughes produced a series of modern-life subjects. The most famous was 'Home from Sea' (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), showing a sailor boy returned from sea crying on the grave of his dead mother. Hughes also had a successful career as an illustrator, providing plates for works of poetry by Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) and Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894). His later works have less poetic intensity or technical mastery than his earlier ones, but remain distinctive and charming.

The Demon Lover

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