Fox, E. Phillips (1865-1915) - 1902 Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay in 1770 (National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
Oil on canvas; 192.2 x 265.4 cm
Emanuel Phillips Fox was an Australian Naturalist painter. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He studied art at the National Gallery School in Melbourne from 1878 until 1886 under G. F. Folingsby, his fellow students included John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, David Davies and Rupert Bunny. In 1886 he went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he gained first prize in his year for design and Ecole des Beaux Arts (1887-1890), where his masters included Adolphe William Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme, both among the most famous artists of the time. While at Beaux Arts he was awarded a first prize for painting. He was greatly influenced by the fashionable school of en plein air Impressionism. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1890, and returned to Melbourne in 1891.
In 1892, Fox opened the Melbourne Art School where he taught European ideas and techniques. He had a considerable influence on Australian art during this period. In his brief career with the Heidelberg School Fox was noted for his figure compositions and subdued landscapes, often painted as nocturnes, utilizing a low-key palette in which the colors, although limited in range, were related to each other "with the utmost delicacy and inventiveness," to quote Australian art scholar James Gleeson. In 1907 he became a full member of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, the first Australian artist to attain that honour. He was also exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy. In 1912 he was elected a member of the International Society of Painters and in the same year spent some time painting in Spain and Algeria.
Fox, E. Phillips (1865-1915) - 1902 Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay in 1770 (National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
Oil on canvas; 192.2 x 265.4 cm
Emanuel Phillips Fox was an Australian Naturalist painter. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He studied art at the National Gallery School in Melbourne from 1878 until 1886 under G. F. Folingsby, his fellow students included John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, David Davies and Rupert Bunny. In 1886 he went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he gained first prize in his year for design and Ecole des Beaux Arts (1887-1890), where his masters included Adolphe William Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme, both among the most famous artists of the time. While at Beaux Arts he was awarded a first prize for painting. He was greatly influenced by the fashionable school of en plein air Impressionism. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1890, and returned to Melbourne in 1891.
In 1892, Fox opened the Melbourne Art School where he taught European ideas and techniques. He had a considerable influence on Australian art during this period. In his brief career with the Heidelberg School Fox was noted for his figure compositions and subdued landscapes, often painted as nocturnes, utilizing a low-key palette in which the colors, although limited in range, were related to each other "with the utmost delicacy and inventiveness," to quote Australian art scholar James Gleeson. In 1907 he became a full member of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, the first Australian artist to attain that honour. He was also exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy. In 1912 he was elected a member of the International Society of Painters and in the same year spent some time painting in Spain and Algeria.