Arthur Foord Hughes

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| image = Arthur Foord Hughes Below Stairs.jpg

| caption = Below Stairs. Signed A. Foord-Hughes. Watercolour. 45.5 x 28 cm

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| birth_date = 1856

| birth_place = Pimlico, London, England

| death_date = 20 July {{death year and age|1934|1856}}

| death_place = Hastings, Sussex, England

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Arthur Foord Hughes (1856 – 20 July 1934) was an English genre and landscape artist.{{cite web|url=http://www.invaluable.co.uk/artist/hughes-arthur-foord-t2z7lfrv5e|title=Arthur Hughes Works on Sale at Auction & Biography|work=Invaluable|accessdate=4 January 2016}}

Hughes was born in Pimlico, London, England,{{cite web|url=http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/hughesaf.html|title=Hughes, Arthur Foord|publisher=Friends of Hastings Cemetery|accessdate=4 January 2016}} the son of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes,{{cite web|url=http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1934p689/four-figure-studies/|title=Four Figure Studies|publisher=Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery|accessdate=4 January 2016|archive-date=19 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919132311/http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1934p689/four-figure-studies/|url-status=dead}} and his wife and former model, Tryphena Foord. He was the cousin of Edward Robert Hughes, also an artist.

A page containing four figure studies, made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1857, including one of Hughes as a baby, is in the collection of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. He was also the model for the title character in his father's illustrations for Tom Brown's School Days.

He had four siblings, including a sister, Emily, who survived him.{{cite web|url=http://www.arthurhughes.org/|title=Arthur Hughes (1832–1915), Pre-Raphaelite Painter and Book Illustrator|accessdate=4 January 2016}} He is buried at Hastings Cemetery.

His works feature in several public collections, including Ringmer Windmill (late 19th century watercolour) and Bexhill Downs Mill ({{circa|1900}}) at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.{{cite web|url=http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/collections/search-our-collections/?cbq=Arthur+Foord+Hughes|title=Catalogue search - Arthur Foord Hughes|publisher=Brighton Museum & Art Gallery|accessdate=4 January 2016}}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Selected works

File:Arthur Hughes.jpg|Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)

File:Arthur Foord Hughes A lady reading while playing the spinet.jpg|A lady reading while playing the spinet

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