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Hughes was born in London. In 1846 he entered the art school at Somerset House, his first master being Alfred Stevens, and later entered the Royal Academy schools. It was here, after reading a copy of The Germ, that he met John Everett Millais, Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, although he never became an official member of the Pre-Raphaelite group of painters. [1]
Arthur Hughes – Ophelia, 1863–64. Ophelia (1851–1853) April Love (1855–56), Tate Britain, London; Home From the Sea (1856–57) The Long Engagement (1859), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Mariana at the window (c.1860s) Knight of the Sun (circa 1861) Home from Sea (1862), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1861–1863)
Ophelia, an 1852 painting by John Everett Millais; Ophelia, an 1883 painting by Alexandre Cabanel; Ophelia, an 1870 painting by Pierre Auguste Cot; Ophelia, a painting by Arthur Hughes; Ophelia, an 1895 painting by Paul Steck; Ophelia, any of several paintings by John William Waterhouse; Ophelia, a circa 1900 painting by Friedrich Heyser
The painting is known for its depiction of the detailed flora of the river and the riverbank, stressing the patterns of growth and decay in a natural ecosystem. Despite its nominal Danish setting, the landscape has come to be seen as quintessentially English. Ophelia was painted along the banks of the Hogsmill River in Surrey, near Tolworth.
In the 1964 The Addams Family, Morticia's sister is named Ophelia: both sisters are played by Carolyn Jones. Ophelia is depicted with flowers in her hair, and often carrying flowers, alluding to the play. [23] In the second episode of the television series Desperate Romantics, Elizabeth Siddal poses for John Everett Millais' Ophelia painting. [24]
The cover art features a detail from the painting Ophelia (First Version) by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes. [10] [11] Honey's Dead peaked at No.14 on the UK Charts. [12] As of May 1998 the album has sold 122,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. [13]
Matthew Shardlake (Arthur Hughes) is a shrewd lawyer in the employ of Thomas Cromwell , the close confidant, and scarcely leashed pitbull, of Henry VIII. When one of Cromwell’s dogsbodies is ...
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB, later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner who formed a seven-member "Brotherhood" partly modelled on the Nazarene movement. [1]