Edward Robert Hughes was a Victorian painter at the periphery of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, and was the nephew of the painter Arthur Hughes.
Edward Hughes was for a time a studio assistant to William Holman Hunt, and is credited for having worked on some of the elder artist's best known works, including Lady of Shallot and Light of the World.
Hughes often worked in watercolor and gouache, creating elegantly rendered and highly detailed works that moved away from the Pre-Raphaelite style toward Symbolism.
