Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton - Artist Info

About Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton

Name variants

Hughes Stanton, Sir Herbert Hughes Pelham Stanton
  • Biography

    Sir Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton RA RWS (21 November 1870 – 2 August 1937) was a British watercolour and oil painter, predominantly of landscapes. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in November 1913, elected a full Royal Academician in 1920 (or 1919) and knighted in 1923. He was an Officier l’ordre Leopold II and a member of the Royal Watercolour Society from 1909 or 1915 and its President from 1920 until 1936.

    He was born in Chelsea, London, son of William Hughes, a still-life painter, and educated in Corsham, near Bath.

    His first paintings were exhibited in 1886; and he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon, Royal Academy (from 1897), Grosvenor Gallery (from 1887), New Gallery, and Royal Institute of Oi...

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