Hanley School of Art
Other names: Hanley School of Design
Foundation date: 25 January 1847
Active: 1847 - 1952
Function: Art school
Policy: Began as a Pottery School of Design in January 1847 backed by the Government and administered by local committees [see Warrilow (1960), p. 284].
Operated as a government branch art school until c. 1860 when Hanley became a seperate school [see Haggar (1953), p. 12]. In 1880 an additional storey was added to the school and it was able to accomodate 200 more students [Haggar (1953), p. 24].
The School's 1908-1909 Prospectus lists Hanley as holding classes in modelling, moulding, casting, wood carving and art metalwork etc [p. 3].
In 1919 Hanley is listed as holding classes in modelling, and held classes in modelling from from the 'nude living model' ['Report of Inspection of Stoke-on-Trent Schools of Art' (1919), p. 12].
The 1925 'Report of Inspection of Stoke-on-Trent Schools of Art' describes the relationship between the school and the local industry: 'The principal aim of the various Schools is to provide courses of instruction suited to the needs of those engaged in the pottery industry'. Seven local firms [not named] paid the fees of 35 students who attended the school [summary, p. 2].
In the Schools of Art Prospectus (1938-39) no modelling classes are listed. Hanley is listed as specialising in design [pp. 6-7], however, it did offer classes in woodcarving [p. 16].
It was agreed in a report on 'Notes on recent proposals for re-organisationfor the Stoke-on-Trent Art Schools' (1949) that Hanley would 'receive the Junior Art Department' and some 'Women's crafts'.
Hanley and the local schools of art were amalgamated into the City of Stoke-on-Trent College of Art in 1952 [see Warrillow (1960), p. 289].
Employees, Students & Members
Numbers: 125
Numbers: 120
Period Start: 1870
Period End: 1871
Numbers: 330
Period Start: 1893
Period End: 1894
Numbers: 136
Period Start: 1917
Period End: 1918
Numbers: 358
Period Start: 1924
Period End: 1925
Institutional and Business Connections
Affiliated with Stoke School of Art
1847 - 1860
See Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Associated People
Assistant principals included Reuben Lees
1865 (Circa)
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged. Listed as 'Assistant Master'.
Assistant principals included Ernest William Light
1908 - 1909
Listed in the 1908-1909 Prospectus as Assistant Master.
Directors included J.S. Murdoch
1847 - 1848
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Members of committee included Leonard James Abington
1847 - 1848 (Presumed)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Members of committee included Samuel Asbury
1847 - 1848 (Presumed)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Members of committee included F. Bishop
1847 (Presumed) - 1848
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Members of committee included Wedgwood Francis
1847 - 1848 (Presumed)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Members of committee included Thomas Heard
1847 - 1848 (Presumed)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Members of committee included Herbert Minton
1847 - 1848 (Presumed)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Members of committee included Charles Meigh
1847 - 1848 (Presumed)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Members of committee included John Ridgway
1847 - 1848 (Presumed)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Principals included John Charles Robinson
1847 (Circa) - 1852 (Circa)
Headmaster; see Haggar (1953), p. 6 and p. 12, and Haggar (1947), unpaged.
Principals included Silas Rice
1852 (Presumed) - 1860 (Circa)
Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Principals included James Carter
1860 (Circa) - 1865 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12 and p. 21.
Principals included Powell
1865 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 21.
Principals included Samuel Joseph Cartlidge
1880 (Presumed) - 1900 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 23.
Principals included George Cartlidge
1900 (Circa) - 1920 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 31.
Listed as the Headmaster in the 1908-1909 Prospectus.
Principals included Percy F. Lloyd
1938 (Presumed) - 1939 (Presumed)
Listed as 'Master in Charge' of Hanley School of Art [see 'Schools of Art Prospectus' (1938-39), p. 5].
Students included Francis H. Aloysius Jahn
See Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 275, no dates are given.
Students included Albert Carl Christian Jahn
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged, no dates are given.
Students included Frederick Richard Wooldridge
See Haggar (1953), p. 26.
Students included Albert Arthur Toft
See 'Special Loan Exhibition', Castle Gallery (1903), p. 74 [summary].
Students included Frederick Alfred Rhead
Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), pp. 294-295: no dates are given.
Students included William Brock
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Students included Henry Brownsword
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Students included William Clews
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Students included Elijah Dunn
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Students included Thomas Hampton
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Students included Rowland James Morris
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12, and 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged. See also Copeland 'Parian Copeland's Statuary Porcelain' (2007), no dates are given.
Students included Albert Wright
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Students included William Walton
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Students included Léon Albert Vincent Solon
1880 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 24.
Students included Lillian Maud Wade (Morris)
1880 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 25.
Students included Charles Vyse
1894 (Circa) - 1905 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 51 and Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 150.
Students included John Adams
1900 (Circa) - 1920 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 32.
Students included Reginald Robert Tomlinson
1900 (Circa) - 1920 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 32.
Teachers included William Mills
1893 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 24.
Teachers of modeling included Pierre-Emile Jeannest
September 1848 (Probable)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Teachers of modeling included Frederick Emil E. Schenck
1873 (Circa)
Haggar (1953), p. 24, gives the dates c. 1880 to 1920. In his 'Dictionary' (1947), Haggar gives 1908 as the date of his post. In the 'List of National Scholars', (1884), p. 189, Schenck is described as 'Art Master, Hanley', in 1873.
Teachers of modeling included John Hénk
1880 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 24.
Teachers of modeling included Francis H. Aloysius Jahn
1890 (Circa) - 1906 (Circa)
Based on Haggar (1953), pp. 24, 32 and prospectuses of Sheffield School of Art
Teachers of woodcarving included S.M. Turner
1938 (Presumed) - 1939 (Presumed)
Listed as tutor of woodcarving at Hanley School of Art [see 'Schools of Art Prospectus' (1938-39), p. 6].
Sources
'Art Education Struggles in Potteries Century Ago', Evening Sentinel
12 June 1964
p. 1.
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 6 and p. 24.
City of Stoke-on-Trent Education Committee, c. 1948 Stoke on Trent (formerly Burslem Art School) 1936-1955
1948 (Circa)
p. 1.
City of Stoke-on-Trent Schools of Art Prospectus, 1938-1939
12 September 1938
p. 4.
Schools of Design, 1850
15 August 1850
p. 8, p. 13 and pp. 32-35.
Citing this record
'Hanley 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_1221650078, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
