E Phillips Fox / Australia/France 1865–1915 / The end of the story c.1911–12 / Oil on canvas / 73.5 x 100.4cm / Purchased 1949 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

E Phillips Fox
The end of the story c.1911–1912

Not Currently on Display

Emanuel Phillips Fox was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne. He trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1881 to 1886 and travelled to Paris the following year to study. Over the next five years, he joined artist colonies in northern France and in Cornwall, England, and exhibited in Paris.

On his return to Australia in 1892, his achievements were recognised with a solo exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Victoria. In 1893 he and George Tucker established the Melbourne Art School.

In 1902, Fox returned to Europe to paint Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay 1770, a work commissioned by the trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria. He married English artist Ethel Carrick in 1905, and the couple based themselves in Paris while Fox made a series of painting trips through France, Italy and Spain. They returned to Australia in 1913 where Fox undertook a series of portrait commissions of eminent Australians.