Camden School of Art
Foundation date: 1881
Function: Art school
History or description: The Camden School was founded in 1881 in Parkhurst Road Holloway and was removed in 1889 to its present situation in Dalmeny Avenue, Camden Road. It was conducted for many years by Mr F. Black under whose direction it attained a high position among institutions of its kind in London, and, since his recent retirement, has been temporarily in charge of Mr W.G. Thomas, long the Principal of the Art School at the Battersea Polytechnic, and now one of the London County Council Inspectors for Art. The school, which was acquired by the County Council in 1903, is not so imposing outwardly as some of those owned by the same authority but its studios and classrooms in the rear of the main buildings are spacious and well arranged.
From 'London Schools' by W.T. Whitley in 'Arts & Crafts: A Review of the Work executed by Students in the leading Art Schools of Great Britain and Ireland' Edited by Charles Holme, 1916.
Associated People
Principals included Percy Oswald Reeves
1903
MSA, Dublin, 'Staff and Salaries', Appendix L, p. 90.
P.O. Reeves former Headmaster of this school.
Sources
Report by the Committee of Inquiry into the work carried on by the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, together with Minutes of evidence, Appendices and Index, 1906
1906
MSA, Dublin, 'Staff and Salaries', Appendix L, p. 90.
P. O. Reeves former Headmaster of this School.
Citing this record
'Camden School of Art', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib3_1217347391, accessed 25 Sep 2023]
