Edward Robert Hughes, (5 November 1851 – 23 April 1914) is a well known English painter who worked in a style influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism. Some of his best known works are “Midsummer Eve” and “Night With Her Train of Stars” Hughes was the nephew of Arthur Hughes. He was also an assistant to William Holman Hunt. He helped Hunt with the version of “The Light of the World” now in St. Paul's Cathedral. He often used watercolour/gouache. He was elected ARWS in 1891 and chose as his diploma work for election to full membership a mystical piece inspired by a verse by Christina Rossetti "Amor Mundi". Technically, Hughes experimented with ambitious techniques. He was a perfectionist who did numerous studies which, in their own right, turned out to be good enough for exhibition.