Emanuel Fox, artist and art teacher, was born on March 12, 1865 in Melbourne. At the age of 15, Fox began taking early drawing lessons from John Carter. Between 1878-1886 he trained at the National Gallery schools. He won awards for landscape painting at the gallery students' exhibitions in 1884 and 1886. A modest painter by European standards, Fox is a gifted colourist and figure painter, who is celebrated for his painting of sunlight effects. He combined Impressionist-oriented vision with academic training. Apart from portraits and landscapes he mainly painted elegant female figures and family groups. He is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all State and various regional galleries, and the Louvre, Paris.