Thomas Hughes is an art historian and writer.

Having completed his PhD at The Courtauld, and then taught there for some years, Thomas has published widely on nineteenth-century art, art criticism and aesthetics, on figures including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, J. M. W. Turner, and Marcel Proust. His work has particularly focused on queerness and representations of nature. He has also published on subjectivity and language in Michael Baxandall and T. J. Clark. (See Publications).