Robert Hughes 'Robin Wyn o Eifion'

Image credit: Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery

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Robert Hughes adopted the Welsh pseudonym of Robin Wyn o Eifion for writing, competing and performing. This was common in Welsh-speaking cultural circles and is still used in the Eisteddfod and competitions in Wales. The poet’s writing was rewarded with prize medallions such as the one he wears in this portrait. This bright confident oil portrait shows a successful writer at the start of his career – in contrast to a photograph taken in 1875 (held at the National Library of Wales) that shows him looking care-worn. Amongst other things, Hughes is remembered for his memorial elegy of 1852 on the late Mrs Sandbach (the poet and novelist Margaret Roscoe) of Hafodunos, Llangernyw, Abergele.

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Bangor

Title

Robert Hughes 'Robin Wyn o Eifion'

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 82 x W 70 cm

Accession number

1966/11

Acquisition method

gift; on loan from Bangor University

Work type

Painting

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