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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, 1996
Rex Dupain
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Robert Hughes, 1963
Louis Kahan AO
Portrait, mixed media on composite board
Gift of the Estate of Louis Kahan 2024. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Robert Hughes - Nothing if not critical, 2001
Bill Leak
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2002
Robert Hughes, 1962
Louis Kahan AO
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Purchased 1998
Robert Hughes, 1962
Louis Kahan AO
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1998
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
Colin Madigan and Robert Hughes, Canberra, 1982 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
Robert H. Black MD, c. 1950
Nora Heysen AM
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Heart of Darkness
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2002
Magda Keaney talks with Bill Leak about his bold new portrait of Robert Hughes in the National Portrait Gallery 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
Miriam Vale Merlo Coffee Shop
Peter Hughes
Image
The art of multiplicity
Magazine article by Meredith Hughes, 2019
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
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
Hon Tom Hughes KC, 2001
Jiawei Shen
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull 2003
Preparatory study of Tom Hughes, 2003
Jiawei Shen
Portrait, brown chalk and pastel on paper
Commissioned with funds provided by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull 2003