The British Hughes family enriched the art world of the island towards the end of the 19th century. The head of the family, William Hughes, devoted himself to painting still lifes with great attention to detail. His master was the Pre-Raphaelite William Hunt. The sons Herbert and Talbot followed the vocation and also went the way of painting. The younger Herbert devoted himself to the traditional depiction of the landscapes of his homeland. The path of Talbot Hughes, on the other hand, is extraordinary. Talbot devoted himself to genre painting and tried to depict his works with great historical authenticity. He did not find his models in the art of his father and the British painters. The French painter Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier was a master of fabric painting. His textile surfaces were so skillfully rendered that the viewer could almost feel the fabric. A skill that became the basis of the paintings of Talbot Hughes he refined to perfection.
Talbot Hughes devotion was to the depiction of female beauty and a melancholy attached to love. A definite image of beauty had become entrenched in society. Women with a delicate stature and an elegant pallor were chosen as the ideal. An image that Talbot idealized and elaborated down to the smallest detail. Hughes immersed himself in the world of fashion. Dresses, hairstyles, fabrics and cuts of different eras became his models. The painter began to acquire and collect clothes. He filled closets with jackets, patterned brocades, mules and wigs. He furnished his models with the clothes from his collection. His drive for perfection of an everyday scene went so far that he coiffed his models single-handedly from templates. The surfaces in Talbot's works show his great artistic talent. Polished wood, shiny metal and the fine fabrics make the scenes exceptionally vivid.
Talbot Hughes has created a world in images that Jane Austen created in literature. It is the British feeling of summer resort in Bath and the time of grand balls at the Regency period. The viewer becomes a voyeur and is allowed to watch, looking in the mirror, tying ribbons and powdering the face. Talbot Hughes has painted with great consideration for the historical background while incorporating his eye for the everyday. For the perfect moment, Talbot has personally laid out the fashions of the eras. For example, the clothing and patterning of the fabric in the painting "The Union Jacket" seem out of time with the hairstyle. The lady's artfully curled hair was not draped in this form until many years later. Talbot's Hughes collection was later given to a museum because of its uniqueness and scope.
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.jpg "Branwen, c.1915 by Talbot Hughes")
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.jpg "The Recital by Talbot Hughes")
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.jpg "The Merry Widow: Frou-Frou by Talbot Hughes")
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.jpg "The Merry Widow: Miss Lily Elsie by Talbot Hughes")
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.jpg "The Merry Widow: Duet and Dance by Talbot Hughes")
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.jpg "The Merry Widow: Danilo and Sonia by Talbot Hughes")
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