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Robert Hughes AO
Biography
Robert Hughes AO (1938-2012) was the senior art critic for Time magazine and one of Australia’s famous expatriates of the 1960s.
6 portraits in the collection
Robert Hughes Black ED BS FRACP
Biography
Robert Hughes Black ED MD DTM&H Dip Anth FRACP (1917-1988) was a world authority on malaria and Professor of Tropical Medicine in the Commonwealth Institute of Health, University of Sydney, for twenty years.
1 portrait in the collection
Tom Hughes AO KC
Biography
Hon Thomas Hughes AO KC (1923-2024), lawyer and former politician, was born in Sydney and educated at Riverview before serving in the RAAF during World War 2.
3 portraits in the collection
William Morris Hughes
Biography
William Morris Hughes (1862-1952) was Labor and National Party Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.
4 portraits in the collection
Robert Grieve
Biography
Robert Grieve (1924-2006), painter and printmaker, exhibited in Melbourne in 1948 before leaving for Europe and England, where he studied lithography at the Regent Polytechnic.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Kermode
Biography
Robert Quayle Kermode (1812-1870), politician, was born on the Isle of Man and educated at Castletown.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Hannaford AM
Biography
Robert Hannaford AM (b. 1944), a largely self-taught artist, grew up on his family farm near the small South Australian town of Riverton before working as political cartoonist for the Adelaide Advertiser from 1964 to 1967.
6 portraits in the collection
Robert Bénard
Biography
Robert Bénard engraved, or directed the engraving of, at least 1800 plates for Diderot's groundbreaking Encyclopédie, published between 1751 and 1772.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Rooney
Biography
Robert Rooney (1937-2017), painter, conceptual artist and photographer, studied at Swinburne Technical college from 1954 to 1957.
17 portraits in the collection
Robert di Pierdomenico
Biography
Robert Di Pierdomenico (b. 1958), the 'Big Dipper', began his career with the Hawthorn Football Club in 1975, but remained obscure until the Grand Final of September 30, 1978, when he gathered 15 kicks, shot out six handpasses and took six marks to be named best on ground.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Robert Gibson
Biography
Sir Robert Gibson GBE (1863-1934) trained in design and drafting in Glasgow, where he began work as a designer at an iron company; he soon became manager of its London office.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Dodd
Biography
Robert Dodd, a leading painter of maritime and military subjects, lived and worked in Wapping, London.
2 portraits in the collection
Robert Rosen
Biography
Robert Rosen is a portrait photographer who took thousands of snaps of the tawdry Sydney social scene of the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
2 portraits in the collection
Robert Ross
Biography
Robert Ross (1792–1862), clergyman, studied medicine in his native Edinburgh before being ordained into the Church of Scotland in 1818.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert T. Carter
Biography
Robert Thomas Carter (1843–1917) was a leading Sydney cabinetmaker and furniture warehouseman, and later an antique dealer.
2 portraits in the collection
Robert Whitaker
Biography
Robert Whitaker, English photographer, spent three years in Melbourne in the early 1960s, becoming friends with Mirka and Georges Mora, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer, the Heide crowd and Martin Sharp and Richard Neville.
1 portrait in the collection