Vittoria Street School for Jewellers and Silversmiths
Other names: Previously Vittoria Street Branch School of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art , also known as Vittoria Street Jewellers and Silversmiths' School
Foundation date: 1901
Active: 1901 - 1951
Function: Art school
History or description: From 1945 the School offered a course of 'Classes for Light Metal Trades'.
Activities: art classes, classes in brasswork, classes in modeling, criticism of works, exhibitions (members only), lectures on art
Publications: pamphlets
Benefits: prizes
Composition: men and women members
Grants
Purpose: scholarship
Beneficiaries: students
Purpose: prize
Beneficiaries: students
Institutional and Business Connections
Partner of Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1901 - 1950
Formally named Vittoria Street Branch School of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art.
Successor to Vittoria Street Branch School of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art
1901 - 1951 (Presumed)
Associated People
Assistant teachers of modeling included Courtenay Edward Maxwell Pollock
1901 - 1902
Note that Pollock is described as a teacher at the school for six years in 'To Keep Film Producers Right', Birmingham Mail in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 24, p. 32.
Headmasters included Arthur Joseph Gaskin
1903 (Circa) - 1924 (Circa)
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged
Principals included William T. Blackband
1931 - 1946
Students included Stanley George Morris
During the 1930s.
Teachers included Charles C. Hopkins
1903 - 1908
Teacher of 'Mounting, Carving and Setting'.
Teachers of modeling included Charles West McKechnie
1901 - 1903
Teachers of modeling included Alfred Watson
1902 - 1922
Teachers of modeling included Charles E. Thomas
1910 - 1922
Listed in Staff Book (c.1900-1921) as Instructor in Modelling.
Teachers of modeling included William James Bloye
September 1912 - 1912 (Presumed)
Listed in the Staff Book (c.1908) as Teacher of Modelling beginning in September 1912; no end date is given.
Citing this record
'Vittoria Street School for Jewellers and Silversmiths', 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_1206023044, accessed 29 May 2023]