Eleanor Mary Hughes

1882 – 1959

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[The Old Tin Mines]

Original etching.

Exceptionally strong proof impression from the artist's own personal collection. Signed with the artist’s stamped signature.

£320

[A Disused Tin Mine]

Original etching.

Exceptionally strong proof impression from the artist’s own personal collection. Signed with the artist’s stamped signature.

£185 - on reserve

[The Three Trees]

Original etching.

Trial proof impression in an early state of the plate, before completion of the image and before the plate was cut down. From the artist's own personal collection.

£105

[The Three Trees]

Original etching.

Early proof of the completed image, from the artist's own personal collection.

£115

St. Michael’s Mount (small plate)

Original etching.

The artist’s master proof impression. From the artist’s own personal collection and signed with the artist’s signature stamp.

£165

St. Michael’s Mount (large plate)

Original etching and drypoint.

Superb trial proof impression from the artist’s own personal collection and signed with the artist’s signature stamp.

£265

[The Wood above the House]

Original etching.

Excellent proof impression with pronounced etched line. From the artist’s own personal collection and signed with the artist’s signature stamp.

£105

[Two Sycamore Trees]

Original etching.

Rare first state proof impression showing the two Sycamore trees in their true setting, prior to the introduction of a Cornish landscape with a distant view across the moors. From the artist’s own personal collection.

SOLD

[Two Sycamore Trees]

Original etching.

Outstanding proof impression of the freshly completed plate. In this state Hughes has introduced an elaborate Cornish landscape below and beyond the two Sycamore trees. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£340

[Cottage and Barn]

Original etching.

Excellent proof impression, printed in brown ink, signed with the artist’s signature stamp. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£70

[Cottage and Barn]

Original etching.

Very good proof impression, printed in black ink, signed with the artist’s signature stamp. From the artist’s own personal collection.

SOLD

[Cornish Elms with the Farm in the distance]

Original etching.

Excellent proof impression, from the artist’s own personal collection and signed with the artist’s signature stamp.

£60

[Cornish Elms with the Farm in the distance]

Original etching.

Proof impression, prepared by the artist as a calendar for 1939. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£90

[The Folly seen through Pine Trees]

Original etching.

Excellent proof impression, signed with the artist’s signature stamp. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£60

[Pine Trees]

Original etching.

Trial proof impression printed on heavy ‘proofing’ paper, signed with the artist’s signature stamp. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£75 - on reserve

[The Folly on the Hill]

Original etching, touched with white chalk.

Unique working proof impression, touched by the artist with white chalk. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£165

[The House, framed by Trees]

Original etching.

Very good proof impression, printed in black/umber ink.

£50

[The House, framed by Trees]

Original etching.

Very good proof impression, printed in warm brown ink.

£60

[Tree study]

Original etching.

Strong, early proof impression, signed with the artist’s signature stamp. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£155

[Pendant Branches]

Original etching.

Very good, strong proof impression with pronounced line, from the artist’s own personal collection.

£115

Old Doorway, Trewoofe 1909

Original etching.

Trial proof impression from the artist’s own personal collection.

SOLD

[Gateway to the House]

Original etching and drypoint.

Excellent proof impression from the artist’s own personal collection.

SOLD

Lamorna Gate

Original etching.

Excellent proof impression, printed in black ink.

£60

Lamorna Gate

Original etching.

Excellent proof impression, printed in brown ink.

£60

[Woodland Farm]

Original etching.

Excellent proof impression from the artist’s own personal collection.

£105

[The Boundary Fence]

Original etching.

Excellent proof impression, signed with the artist’s signature stamp. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£125

[Cottage with Stone Chimney Stack]

Original etching.

The artist’s master proof impression. From the artist’s own personal collection and signed with the artist’s signature stamp.

£145

[Town houses, Cornwall]

Original etching.

Trial proof impression. Eleanor Hughes used this impression as a guide proof. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£60

[Town houses, Cornwall]

Original drypoint.

Trial proof impression in an early state of the plate, prior to shading on the blank white wall at the left of the image. From the artist’s own personal collection.

£60

[Town houses, Cornwall]

Original drypoint.

Early proof of the completed image, printed just after the shading had been added to the white wall at the left of the image. Eleanor Hughes used this impression as a guide proof.

£60

Although well known as a leading painter of the Newlyn School of artists, Eleanor Mary Hughes has remained virtually unknown as an etcher until the recent discovery of her estate. Born in New Zealand to Cornish parents, Eleanor Hughes came to England to study in London and in 1907 she became a pupil of Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes at Newlyn, Cornwall. In 1910 she married fellow Newlyn painter Robert Hughes and they settled at Lamorna. In 1912 they designed and built a house at Chyangweal near St.Buryan where they were to spend the rest of their lives. Eleanor owned a studio in the Lamorna Valley about a mile from the house and it was there that she worked and kept her etchings.

In 1911 Eleanor Hughes began to exhibit at the Royal Academy and later at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. In 1933 she was elected to full membership of the R.I. and by the time the Second World War broke out she had exhibited 34 works at the Royal Institute, 37 at the Royal Academy, seven at the New English Art Club, nine at the Glasgow Institute, six at the Walker Gallery and many more elsewhere – besides being an active organiser of the Newlyn and St.Ives exhibitions. In 1940 Eleanor Hughes sold her studio and few paintings were completed after that. She was close lifelong friends with Lamorna Birch and Dame Laura Knight. Eleanor Hughes is soon to be the subject of a major biography which will include a complete catalogue of her original etchings.

All of the etchings offered here carry the artist’s signature stamp guaranteeing that they are from the artist’s personal collection which was inherited in its entirety by her niece, Judith Hughes. [more]