PHILLIPS FOX, Emanuel (1865-1915)

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"L'enfant Aux Yeux Bleus" (c.1906-8) 
oil on canvas on board
cm
signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Emanuel Phillips Fox was a leading, influential Australian Impressionist. His best known works are "The Landing Of Captain Cook At Botany Bay" (1902) & "The Ferry" (1911); iconic works of Australian Impressionism. His works are represented in all major galleries in Australia and abroad! After studying at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne, beside contemporaries Frederick McCubbin and Rupert Bunny, Fox travelled to Paris to study at the Académie Julian in 1886 under legendary French painters, Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Leon Gerome. He remained in Europe until 1892. He returned to Melbourne and established the Melbourne School of Art. He led what is considered the second phase of the Heidelberg School, an impressionist art movement which had grown in the city during his absence. Returning to Europe in 1905, he settled in Paris in 1908, with his wife Ethel Carrick Fox, & was elected an associate of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. By now he was exhibiting regularly at the Paris Salon and Royal Academy, and in 1912 he was elected a member of the International Society of Painters.