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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Arthur Hughes 1832-1915 is in Painters.
On 27th January 1832 Arthur Hughes was born to Edward Hughes (age 45).
1848-1849. Arthur Hughes (age 15). "The Young Poet (Portrait of the Artist)".
1851. Arthur Hughes (age 18). Self-portrait.
1852. John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 22). "The Proscribed Royalist, 1651". A young Puritan woman protecting a fleeing Royalist after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The model for the Royalist hiding in the tree is Arthur Hughes (age 19).
1852. John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 22). Portrait study for "The Proscribed Royalist", "The Proscribed Royalist, 1746".. Arthur Hughes (age 19), then a student at the Royal Academy, recalled meeting Millais in the Academy library. Millais asked him to 'sit…for a head in his picture, 'The Proscribed Royalist '. I went and sat 5 or 6 times. He painted me in a small back room on the 2nd floor of the Gower Street house [Map]'.
1852. Arthur Hughes (age 19). "Ophelia". The quote from Hamlet Act IV Scene 7 Part IV: "There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds, Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself, Fell in the weeping brook."
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1852. 30th December 1852. Went down to Dante G (age 24). and William Rossetti's chambers at 14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars Bridge. Met there Wells (age 24), J. P. Seddon (age 25), Clayton (age 25), and Mr. Munro (age 27), Mr. Stephens (age 25) and Mr. Hughes (age 20). Rossetti showed me his studio but none of his works (which is his way). He had for our entertainment a series of anastatic drawings designed and coloured by the Hon. Mrs. Boyle, some of which as beautiful in feeling, natural simplicity, and colour, and in poetical treatment as almost anything I have seen. They illustrate a nursery rhyme. Also a quantity of Gavarni's works, and a grand and most striking mask of Dante taken from a caste of his face in death; a tracing of his head in Giotto's fresco with the eye imperfect; a pen and ink sketch by Millais from Keats' "Isabella." In the physical way, roast chestnuts and coffee, honey, and hot spirits. His room has a jolly balcony overhanging the river, the reflection of the lights on the bridge and quays, etc., were charming. Conversation throughout delightful, resulting methought from the happy and gentlemanly freedom of the company generally. There was only one of D. G. Rossetti's works to be seen in the room, and that was a sketch, study of a man, back view. Gabriel Rossetti invited me to his studio next Thursday.
1853-1859. Arthur Hughes (age 20). "Amy" aka Study for the "The Long Engagement".
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1854. 13th March 1854. To Rossetti's (age 25). Found him at home but unwell; he sleeps little at nights. A young man of the name of Hughes (age 22) was painting a picture of Orlando inscribing his mistress' name on a tree. Parts nicely painted. Rossetti showed me an exquisite drawing of his from the Vita Nuova, Dante receiving visitors on the anniversary of Beatrice's death. He showed me too a little unfinished drawing of Dante, Beatrice, and two others, in Paradise, he promised to finish for me, as I liked it, and would like some work in exchange. On the wall he has pen and ink outlines by J. E. Millais (age 24), W. H. Hunt (age 26), Deverell, and W. B. Scott, pencil design by Woolner, chalk study by F. M. Brown (age 32). A lovely hasty rub in of a cornfield against a deep blue sky, by W. H. Hunt. We read a long critique of the National Exhibition in the Daily News by Coventry Patmore; intensive praise of my small drawing, finding fault with the others. Rossetti came round to Russell St. and took ten of the drawings I showed him. He liked the long Sunset, Moel Siabod—Autumn Study, Thought the 3 greatest men in art were Giotto, Durer, Hogarth.
1855-1856. Arthur Hughes (age 22). "April Love". The model was the artist's future wife [his future wife] Tryphena Foord (age 26). The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1856. At its first showing Hughes accompanied the painting with an extract from Tennyson's poem "The Miller's Daughter":
Love is hurt with jar and fret,
Love is made a vague regret,
Eyes with idle tears are set,
Idle habit links us yet;
What is Love? For we forget.
Ah no, no.
Tryphena Foord: On or before 14th December 1828, the date she was baptised, she was born to Robert Foord. In October 1855 Arthur Hughes and she were married. His brother Edward Hughes was married to her older sister Harriet Foord. An example of Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings. In March 1921 she died.
In October 1855 Arthur Hughes (age 23) and Tryphena Foord (age 26) were married. His brother Edward Hughes (age 27) was married to her older sister Harriet Foord (age 29). An example of Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings.
1859. Arthur Hughes (age 26). "The Long Engagement". The painting was originally titled Orlando. Her name Amy scratched into the tree top left. Model possibly [his wife] Tryphena Foord (age 30).
1865. Arthur Hughes (age 32). "Ophelia". It illustrates the scene in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' (Act IV, scene 7) in which Ophelia picks flowers to make garlands shortly before she drowns.
1865. Arthur Hughes (age 32). Study for "Lady of Shalott".
1872-1873. Arthur Hughes (age 39). "The Annunciation".
1873. Arthur Hughes (age 40). Portrait of the artists's nephew Edward Robert Hughes (age 21).
1873. Arthur Hughes (age 40). "Lady of Shalott".
1882-1883. Arthur Hughes (age 49). "Memories".
1897. Arthur Hughes (age 64). "Mrs Norman Hill and Her Children".
All About History Books
The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1897. Arthur Hughes (age 64). "La Belle Dame Sans Merci".
1903. Arthur Hughes (age 70). Portrait of Margaret Lushington (age 33)", Mrs Stephen Langton Massingberd". In the collection of Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire which is shown in the background.
Margaret Lushington: Around 1870 she was born. Before 1903 Stephen Langton aka Massingberd and she were married. In 1906 she died.
On 22nd December 1915 Arthur Hughes (age 83) died in Kew Green, London. He was buried in Richmond Cemetery.
In March 1921 [his former wife] Tryphena Foord (age 92) died.