Newcastle School of Art
Foundation date: 1853
Active: 1853 - 1914
Function: Art school
Locations
Located at Shakespear Hotel and Assembly Room Brunswick Street Newcastle-under-Lyme England | View on map
1853 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 30.
Associated People
Assistant principals included George Woolliscroft Rhead Senior
1869 (Circa) - 1879 (Circa)
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged.
Principals included Joseph Patrick Bacon
1853 (Circa) - 1890 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 30. See 'Year's Art' 1890, p. 135.
Students included Albert Arthur Toft
See Haggar (1953), p. 31. See also 'Birmingham Sculptor', Birmingham Mail, 10 October, 1925, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 12, (1 December 1924-16 February 1926), pp. 125-126.
Students included Frederick Alfred Rhead
Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), pp. 294-295: no dates are given.
Students included Roy Austin
1939
'He attended Newcastle and Stoke-on-Trent College of Art until 1939 when joined the forces and served until 1946 in the Air Sea Rescue': see an article in Wedgwood Review, vol. 4, no. 4, Sept. 1967, p. 9 (Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive).
Students included George Woolliscroft Rhead Junior
1853 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 30.
Students included George Woolliscroft Rhead Senior
1857 (Circa) - 1869 (Circa)
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged.
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 30.
Citing this record
'Newcastle 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_1222096176, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
