Early Life and Education Born: August 8, 1869, in Emerald Hill (now South Melbourne, Victoria), Australia Parents: John Coates (artist-lithographer) and Elizabeth Irwin Education: St James Grammar School; apprenticed to Ferguson and Urie (glass-stainers); North Melbourne school of design; National Gallery of Victoria Art School (under Frederick McCubbin). Early struggles with affording art education due to his father's early d…