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Born in Chester-le-Street, he came to Newcastle aged 13yrs to study at the Government School of Design under William Scott Bell for some two years. He then spent six months in Paris, then moving to London on gaining entry to the Royal Academy Schools at approx sixteen years old. He supported himself entirely unaided through portrait commissions. Emmerson exhibited his oil ' The Village Tailor' at the Royal Academy 1851. He moved back north in 1856, briefly to Whickham, then Ebchester, then onto Stocksfield living there for some six years. In 1865 he moved to Cullercoats, retaining a home there for the rest of his life, although he spent a number of years living mainly at Rothbury. Emmerson died at his home in Cullercoats 1895.
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