亞瑟•休斯是一位拉斐爾前派的美術(shù)家。
有人曾這樣評價他的畫："the knife-edge between sentiment and sentimentality" 但因?yàn)槊髁恋挠蒙图?xì)致的細(xì)節(jié)，休斯的作品并不顯得感傷。 他也是一個十分活躍的插畫家。
Ophelia 奧菲利婭
Painting Date: 1851-53
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 68.5 x 124 cm
Location: Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England
休斯筆下的奧菲利婭纖弱優(yōu)美,宛若林澤女神.
畫框上有這樣的題詩：
'There is a willow grows aslant the brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come.
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples.
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang an envious sliver broke.
When down the weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.'
April Love 四月之戀
Painting Date: 1855-56
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 89 x 49.5 cm
Location: Tate Britain, London, England
1856年此畫展出時附有丁尼生（Tennyson）的磨坊主的女兒（The Miller's Daughter）中的詩句作為注釋：
'Love is hurt with jar and fret.
Love is made a vague regret;
Eyes with idle tears are wet,
Idle habit links us yet.
What is love? for we forget:
Ah, no! no!'
“相當(dāng)優(yōu)雅，可愛的色彩。少女顫抖的嘴唇，甜美溫柔的臉，猶豫不決的姿態(tài)，就像在風(fēng)中顫抖的樹葉上的一滴剔透的露珠?！?引自Academy Notes, 1856, 14.68).
Knight of the Sun 太陽騎士
Painting Date: 1861 (?)
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 22.5 x 32 cm
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
上了年紀(jì)的戰(zhàn)士受了重傷，正被人抬往僧侶的帳篷，黃昏的景象暗示了英雄遲暮的悲涼。
Ophelia and He Will Not Come Again 奧菲利婭
Painting Date: 1863-64
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 94.5 x 59.5 cm
Location: Toledo Museum of Art, Toldeo, Ohio, USA
休斯描述奧菲利婭臨死前，她正接近湖面，回眸張望，唱著她的最后一支歌：
'Ophelia (sings)
And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, no he is dead
Go to thy death-bed
He never will come again.
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll:
He is gone, he is gone,
And we cast away moan;
Gramercy on his soul!
And of all Christian souls, I pray God -
God be wi' you.
Exit'.
