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'April Love' is a beautiful painting by Arthur Hughes, a Pre-Raphaelite painter, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856, with a quotation 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.
We find, in the painting, a solitary woman in lilac dress and stole looking at her name carved in the back of a tree. The painting hints at a brief quarrel between lovers, based on the perennially popular song from Tennyson, 'Tears, Idle Tears'. Scatterd petals suggest the quarrel, ivy the true constancy- and the girl's expression is between joy and pain.
The model for the principal figure was Tryphena Ford, who Hughes married in 1855.
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