Bob Ross net worth

Bob Ross was an American professional painter, Television show host and art instructor who was born on October 29, 1942 and gave up the ghost on July 4, 1995.

Ross got married three times each time ending in divorce and having two children, a child he fathered from a relationship he had as a teenager, and a son, Robert Stephen Ross, with his first wife, Vivian Ridge.

Steve, also a talented painter, occasionally appeared on The Joy of Painting and gradually suited a Ross-certified instructor.

Steve appeared on camera in the last episode of Season 1, in which he read a series of general “how-to” questions sent in by viewers during the season, and Bob answered them one at a time, technique by technique until he had completed an entire painting.

Ross and Ridge’s marriage ended in divorce in 1977, allegedly due to Ross’ infidelity; she died shortly after the divorce, leaving Steve Ross in Bob’s custody, where the two grew particularly close.

Ross and his second wife, Jane, had no children together and in 1992, Jane died of cancer. In 1995, two months before his death, Ross married for a third time, to Lynda Brown.

Ross was very secretive about his life and had a great preference for privacy. Some of only a few interviews with his close-knit circle of friends and family can be found in the 2011 PBS documentary Bob Ross: The Happy Painter.

Other conversations were destroyed as part of a legal settlement between Ross’ family and Bob Ross Inc. is protective of his intellectual property and his privacy to this day.

Ross was not a member of any specific organized religion. He frequently expressed his belief in a creator god and often closed his shows with a wish that “God bless” his viewers.

Bob Ross net worth

Bob Ross, the professional painter, art instructor, and television presenter was estimated to be worth $1Million.