Vittoria Street Branch School of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art
Other names: Became Vittoria Street School for Jewellers and Silversmiths in 1901
Foundation date: 18 September 1890
Dissolution date: 1901 (Presumed)
Active: 1890 - 1901
Function: Art school
Policy: The Vittoria Street Branch School was described as being 'specially intended for those engaged in the jewellery and kindred trades.' ['Birmingham Municipal School of Art Programme', 1890]
Grants
Purpose: prize
Beneficiaries: students
Purpose: scholarship
Beneficiaries: students
Institutional and Business Connections
Partner of Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1890 - 1901
Became the Vittoria Street School for Jewellers and Silversmiths in 1902.
Succeeded by Vittoria Street School for Jewellers and Silversmiths
1901 - 1951 (Presumed)
Associated People
Headmasters included Robert Sidney Catterson-Smith
1901 - June 1903
See an article from the Birmingham Daily Mail, 26 May, 1903, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 4, p. 58A.
Students included Bernard Cuzner
See an article in the Birmingham Mail, 19 June, 1920, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 10, pp. 169-170. No dates are given, however, Cuzner was a student at the school under Robert Catterson-Smith who taught there from 1901 to 1903.
Students included Bernard Instone
See an article in the Birmingham Mail, 19 June, 1920, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 10, pp. 169-170. No dates are given, however, Instone studied at the school under Robert Catterson-Smith who taught there from 1901 to 1903.
Teachers of modeling included Charles West McKechnie
1890 - 1901
Sources
An Illustrated History of Moseley School of Art: Art Education in Birmingham 1800-1975, 2004
2004
pp. 1-450.
Citing this record
'Vittoria Street Branch School of the Birmingham Municipal 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=msib4_1205941120, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
