As per our current Database, Robert Hughes has been died on Aug 6, 2012 (age 74).
When Robert Hughes die, Robert Hughes was 74 years old.
| Popular As | Robert Hughes |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 74 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | July 28, 1938 (Australia) |
| Birthday | July 28 |
| Town/City | Australia |
| Nationality | Australia |
Robert Hughes’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Robert Hughes was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Most remembered for a bestselling Australian historical study titled The Fatal Shore, he also worked as a Time magazine art critic and hosted an art-themed television program called The Shock of the New.
After studying architecture and art at the University of Sydney, he worked as an art critic and Cartoonist for The Observer.
He hosted a 1990s documentary television series titled American Visions that discussed art produced in the United States from the late Eighteenth Century to the modern day.
His first marriage, to Danne Emerson, resulted in a son named Danton. His second marriage, to Victoria Whistler, lasted from 1981 until 1996. A decade prior to his death, he married his third wife, American Painter Doris Downes.
He promoted the work of the German-English psychological portrait Painter Lucian Freud.
