Edwin Hughes - Artist Info

About Edwin Hughes

  • Biography

    Edwin Hughes was born in 1842. Edwin Hughes was the son of a picture dealer. He specialised in genre scenes and portraits, and painted mainly in oils. He exhibited eleven works at the Royal Academy from 1880, as well as exhibiting at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham, the Walker Art Gallery and Manchester City Art Gallery. Hughes's work is particularly sought after for the highly detailed background details and accoutrements of daily life included in his paintings, which give added interest to his carefully-drawn figures. Edwin Hughes passed away in 1922.

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