Emanuel Phillips Fox Australia, 1865-1915
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About Emanuel Phillips Fox
Emanuel Phillips Fox was born in 1865 in Fitzroy, Melbourne. He studied art at the National Gallery School in Melbourne from 1878 until 1886 and that year he travelled to Paris and studied at the Academie Julian, and École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1890, and after his return to Melbourne in 1891, opened the Melbourne Art School with Tudor St George Tucker. He left for London in 1901 and studied and worked there until his return in 1913, when he held an exhibition of 70 works in Melbourne. He died of cancer two years later, aged 50.
Emanuel Fox is one of the most prolific of the artists listed in our database, with the number of works offered for sale by auction since 1967 of 652, of which 454 (70%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $1,061,400 for Monastery, San Lazzaro (1907) sold by Sotheby's in August 2017. This year 3 works have been offered for sale. Works by Emanuel Fox are held by the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia and a further seven major public national galleries (see list below).
Emanuel Phillips Fox is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 436
- Campbell, Jean. Australian Watercolour Painters: 1780 to the Present Day. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1989. Page 310
- Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
No, ineligible. The artist has been deceased for more than 70 years.
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