This painting was originally called \u2018The Casket\u2019 but Hughes changed it to \u2018Madeleine\u2019.\u00a0 A beautiful woman wearing a richly coloured dress lifts a string of beads from a casket. Hughes used his own wife as the model.<\/p>\n
This painting was intended as a study for \u2018A Music Party\u2019\u00a0but Hughes decided to make it into a\u00a0finished painting.\u00a0Hughes met John Everett Millais and Holman Hunt when he joined the Royal academy, becoming one of the Pre-Raphaelite group of painters. His first picture, Musidora, was hung at the Royal Academy when he was only 17.
\nIn 1855 Hughes married Tryphena Foord, his model for another work, April Love. When Hughes died in 1915, he left about 700 known paintings and drawings, along with over 750 book illustrations. Following the death of his wife in 1921, their daughter Emily had to move to a smaller house. Because of a lack of space, she had her father\u2019s remaining preparatory sketches, and all his private papers and correspondence, destroyed.<\/p>\n
Arthur Hughes was the uncle of the English painter Edward Robert Hughes.<\/p>\n
Sources of our description:\u00a0 Wikipedia<\/a> and Tullie House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This painting was originally called \u2018The Casket\u2019 but Hughes changed it to \u2018Madeleine\u2019.\u00a0 A beautiful woman wearing a richly coloured dress lifts a string of beads from a casket. Hughes used his own wife as the model. This painting was intended as a study for \u2018A Music Party\u2019\u00a0but Hughes decided to make it into a\u00a0finished … Continue reading Madeleine<\/span>