works in several galleries around London: Dudley Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery, The Royal Academy, and toward the end of his career he exhibited with The Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours (RWS). His works can be seen in public collections including Cartwright Hall, Bradford, Cambridge & County Folk Museum, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery, Bruce Castle Museum, Kensington Central Library, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, and the National Trust for Scotland. Birmingham Museums Trust staged a retrospective exhibition, Enchanted Dreams: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of E.R. Hughes, from 17 October 2015 to 21 February 2016 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. His auction record is $866,500 (522,366 GBP) for Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie), sold at Sotheby's (New York) on 22 October 2009. Family life E.R. Hughes (known to his family as "Ted") was born in Clerkenwell, London, in 1851 to Edward Hughes Snr. and Harriet Foord. He had one brother, William Arthur Hughes, who was two years younger than him, became a frame maker (gilder) and by 1891 a photographer. During the 1860s he lived for a time with his uncle Arthur Hughes and his family which included his son Arthur Foord Hughes, also an artist. In 1874 Hughes became engaged to Mary MacDonald, the daughter of the writer George MacDonald. Unfortunately Mary died four years later. In 1883 Hughes married Emily Eliza Davies. In 1913 they moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire, where he was later stricken with appendicitis. He died after surgery on 23 April 1914 in his home (no. 3 Romeland). The marriage did not produce any offspring. List of works Gallery See also List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings References Bibliography External links A British Symbolist In Pre-Raphaelite Circles: Edward Robert Hughes RWS (1851–1914) MPhil Thesis by Victoria Osborne 1851 births 1914 deaths Artists from London 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters English watercolourists Alumni of the Heatherley School of Fine Art Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools Pre-Raphaelite painters 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists