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Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)

Other names: Government School of Design (from 1837), Central School of Design (from 1841), Central School of Practical Art (from 1852), National Art Training School (from 1853), South Kensington School of Art (informal), Royal College of Art (from 1896)
Foundation date: 1837

Active: 1837 -

Function: Art school

Policy: '…the special object of the school is the training of Art teachers of both sexes, of designers, and of Art workmen, to whom facilities and assistance are afforded in the shape of Studentships in Training, Royal Exhibitions, and National Scholarships with maintenance allowances (...). Free Studentships with complete or partial remission of feeds are also granted. A school for the instruction of general students is attached to and serves as a Practising School for the Training Class…The Royal College of Art is not intended to train painters of easel pictures. As the National Art Training School, it was originally intended to train designers for fabrics, &c., to train craftsmen rather than artists.’

(Quoted from a 'Report on the Royal College of Art', (1897) which includes an extract from the 'Calendar of the Department of Science and Art' (1896), describing the aims of the school in 1896, the year it was re-named the Royal College of Art.)

By 1926-7, when William Rothenstein had been Principal for six years the two main aims of the College had become 1: 'to give advanced students a full opportunity to equip themselves for the practice of Art in Drawing, Painting, Engraving, Sculpture, and Design for Architecture, Decoration, Handicraft, and Manufacturers', and 2: 'to give professional training to those students who, after completing the ordinary College course, desire to prepare themselves primarily for teaching in Art Schools' (see p. 1).

Rules: Entry and Course Requirements (available sources only supplied data for the period 1894-1927):

In 1894 Free admission was given to students 'in Training, National Scholars, and Free Students'; other general students were permitted to attend on the payment of fees. Classes were delivered on weekdays, in the day and evenings. Male and female students attended separate evening classes (see 'Prospectus', 1894, p. 3). Students who had completed the Art Master's Certificate and were preparing to become teachers, were eligible to compete for a maintenance allowance. 'Allowances to Students in Training are renewable from Term to Term; but no male Student may remain on the list of paid Students for more than four years, and no female Student for more than two years, without the sanction of my Lords on a special recommendation: and no Student may remain even that time unless he or she does well from Term to Term' (see Prospectus, 1894, p. 4).

The 1894 'Prospectus' notes that 'before entering the Modelling class, Students must pass the Elementary stages in Course II., and attend the Model-drawing and Perspective lectures'. Course II was taken by 'Students wishing to Study the Figure' and was an Elementary level course. It included classes in freehand drawing in outline from the flat, outline drawing of details of the face from the round, and shading in chalk from models and casts of ornament. 'Before being admitted to the next Pre-paratory Course, Students must pass through the Model-drawing and Perspective class'.

A report of 1900, from the 'Council of Art', Board of Education (signed by William B. Richmond, E. Onslow Ford, T.G. Jackson, and Walter Crane) made a number of recommendations, including the suggestion that the Royal College of Art should be divided into an Upper and Lower School. The Upper School would train Art Masters and decorative artists, and the lower school would 'consist of less qualified students'. The requirements of the modelling course in the Lower School included modelling casts of ornament, modelling details of the human figure from casts, modelling the whole figure in the round and relief from casts, and modelling an anatomical figure in the round only.

The course requirements for the Upper School around 1900 included the following:
- modelling in various degrees of relief, of foliage from nature adapted with decorative intention to a given shape.
- ornamental application of the above to capitals, friezes, ceilings, panels and other structural elements for internal and external decoration.
- modelling from the life: in the round (twelve days) and in relief (eight days).
- two sketches in clay, each to be made in one day [...]
- studies of drapery arranged on the lay figure to be made in eight days [...]
- modelling in relief from the drawings of drapery made by the student in the drawing school
- composition in relief, of figures combined with foliage and animals, for the external and internal decoration of public buildings, to be made in eight days.

The following classes relating to sculptural practice were proposed as additions to the school's curriculum in 1900: wood carving, stone and marble carving, metal work (including repousse, wrought iron, casting bronze, lead and pewter), pottery.

In 1926-7 to gain entry into the School of Sculpture candidates were asked to submit 'a piece of modelling in the round', 'a drawing from life', 'an anatomical rendering in pencil' and to carry out a test at the College in which they were asked to model a head from life within six days (see Prospectus, 1926-1927, p. 13)

Students were normally aged between eighteen and thirty years old and were expected to enroll on to a Diploma Course. When applying for a Diploma Course students would pre-select the specialism they wished to study, for example, architecture or sculpture. The Diploma Course typically lasted for three years, although in 'special circumstances' could be completed within two years (see Prospectus, 1926-1927, pp. 2-4).

After obtaining a Diploma from the College students could return to take the Post-Diploma Course. Through this course the student could either 'further the study of his craft', take another type of class offered by the College, take the Professional Course for Art School Teachers or execute their own work. Students could spend up to five years in the College if they were enrolled on the Professional Course, or four years if they were continuing their studies (see Prospectus, 1926-1927, pp. 5-7).

Additional Short Courses were available to students on application, these consisted 'largely of Museum Study' (p. 7). 'A few well qualified external students' were admitted as part-time students to attend classes including marble and stone carving, and workshops for metal work and pottery (p. 8).
Course fees in 1926-1927 were thirty guineas for 'a complete session' or twelve guineas for a single term (see Prospectus, 1926-1927, p. 8).

Students from the Schools of Drawing and Painting and Sculpture were also expected to take classes in Architecture. These included instruction on 'the relation of the Arts to Architectural History and Practice; the spaces and forms of building that are decorated in colour or enriched with Sculpture; the employment of the Crafts in furnishing and completion; and the study of geometrical draughtmanship for technical purposes'. The School of Architecture also offered a 'Special Course' and 'Post Diploma Study' (see Prospectus, 1926-1927, pp. 14-15).

Details of the courses offered by the School of Design and Crafts and the School of Sculpture have been added to the database as separate courses: see the relationships attached to this record.

History or description: In 1835-1836 a report of a Select Committee on Arts and Manufacturers recommended that a School of Design should be formed through which 'the direct application of the arts to manufacturers should be deemed an essential element'. In response to this recommendation the Government School of Design opened in 1837 at Somerset House, London. The adjoining rooms housed objects that students could study from and these formed the foundations of the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1850 the main College building was housed in the 'same block' as the Museum. At its foundation the School of Design aimed to train students in 'Ornamental Art' - or that directly related to industry - as opposed to 'Fine Arts' because this was already provided by the Royal Academy Schools.

In 1841, following a government drive to promote local schools of design, the College became known as the Central School of Design. From this date onwards classes were offered to train teachers who could then work in provincial schools, and these classes became extremely popular. A department of Practical Art was set up in 1852 resulting in the school being re-named the Central School of Practical Art. At the same time 'fresh classes were established at Marlborough House'. By 1853 it had become the National Art Training School, a title that it retained until 1896 when it became the Royal College of Art.

In 1857 the College moved to temporary buildings in South Kensington and in 1863 to its permanent home. The Female School of Art occupied separate buildings. Due to the demand to find teachers for the provincial art schools, in 1859 the school described its 'primary purpose [as] the supplying of art teachers to all places which seek to establish Art schools.’

By 1875 the popularity of the College had increased greatly but the provision of teaching for design for manufacturer had been suppressed. From 1877 the College began to reduce the number of students, and over the next decade there was decline of about 45% (780 students in 1877 down to 426 in 1888).

In a 'Report on the National Art Training School' (1881), John Sparkes (Principal) noted that the 'Central School fulfils two distinct uses. Its primary use is the education and training of young men for masters in the Art Schools of the country. Its secondary use is the education of such persons as can pass an elementary examination and are able to pay fees for the instruction they receive'. Sparkes highlights that 'in the early history of the central school, the training class was the larger part, the general public were few in number and for the most part, worked in elementary stages. As time went on and after the schools were removed to South Kensington this relation of one to the other changed, and at the present moment the general class out-numbers the training class by 16 to 1'.

John Sparkes also heavily criticised the school's facilities, stating that the buildings were 'ill planned', 'badly lighted', 'badly ventilated', and 'insufficient'. He also argued that the staff of the school were 'weak in number and weak in quality'. Sparkes criticises the overcrowding in the modelling school which he describes as 'a section whence the greatest amount of good to the future industries of this Country may be expected, and one I am particularly anxious to strengthen'. Sparkes suggested that the etching school should be abolished to make room for the modelling class. The printing press would be kept so that the etching class could continue - but not at the current capacity. Sparkes pointed out that six teachers attended the school each day, and an average of 381 students, which meant an average of 64 students per teacher - 'an obvious over-task', as Sparkes described it. This compared unfavourably to figures in 1855: 320 students and 230 students, which equated to 33 students per teacher. Sparkes suggested that the only solution to this problem was to increase the efficiency of the teaching staff. See this report for further details of the Sparkes suggestions for re-structuring in the teaching staff.

In 1889 a report of the Committee of Inquiry on National Art Training, highlighted the 'falling off in number of Fee-Paying Students, and the consequent serious diminution in the income of those Teachers in the School who are paid wholly or in part from the fees received'.

In 1896 the School was given the new title of the Royal College of Art. From this date it also offered 'the Diploma of Associateship, which ranks as a degree for educational purposes, and the use of a hood and gown'. Four years later (1901) the College was restructured and divided into four Schools: Architecture, Painting, Sculpture and Design. Additional classes were also offered in: stained glass, pottery, furniture decoration (which included wood-carving and gesso work) and metal work and enamelling (see p. 1).

Between the two world wars, the main changes were the addition of a School of Engraving and, on the recommendation of the 'Hambleden Committee' of 1935, the appointment of a new board of governors to represent the interests of industry.

In 1948-49 the structure of the College changed and the number of Schools increased from five to ten including: ceramics, silversmithing and jewellery design (which also included stained glass) and sculpture. The College was also at this time divided into faculties: sculpture came under the Faculty of Fine Arts, ceramics under the Faculty of Industrial Arts; silversmithing and jewellery came under both the Faculty of Industrial Arts and the Faculty of Fashion, and architecture came under both Fine Arts and Industrial Arts (see Prospectus 1948-1949).

The decision to sub-divide the School of Design came following recommendations from experts in 1944: in c. 1948 the committee broke down the School of Design into six separate Schools. This structure was intended to 'provide a specialised and professional training with a view to direct assistance to industry'. Linked with this re-structuring, the College also separated the awards that students received upon graduation. Students of Fine and Graphic Design (including sculpture) were awarded the Diploma of Associateship of the College (A.R.C.A.), and students of all other schools were awarded a new diploma of Designer of the Royal College of Art (Des. R.C.A.). The 1949-1951 essay notes that this new Diploma would not come into effect until 1951.

Development of the premises and facilities for the new Schools were underway in 1949-1950. The College also became a 'self-governing National College' c.1949-1950. In 1967, after 130 years in operation, the Royal College of Art was granted its Royal Charter, which gave it the status of an independent university with the power to grant its own degrees.

The above text is a summary from pp. 25-30 of an anonymous 'History and Objects of the College' published in the RCA's 1949-1950 prospectus which provides a detailed history of its formation and development until c.1950. For a full and detailed history of the College between 1836-1950 see Frayling (1987) and Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth, appendix D of her PhD thesis, 'Chronology of the Royal College of Art' referenced in 'The Royal College of Art' (1991), pp. 593-600. These texts deal more fully with the changes to the curriculum and major policy reviews that took place up to 1951.

Activities: art classes, classes in drawing, classes in life drawing , classes in modeling, classes in modeling from the life, classes in painting, classes in woodcarving, lectures on art

Employees, Students & Members

Numbers: 780
Period Start: 1877
Period End: 1878

Numbers: 426
Period Start: 1888
Period End: 1889

Works

Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited due to a lack of evidence about the state, medium or edition shown.

Designed Piano back in carved walnut: gilt ground
designed by students from the school

Exhibited Frieze

Exhibited Panel

Locations

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Address South Kensington London | View on map

Address Ambleside | View on map
1942 - 1945
The college relocated here during the blitz

School located at Somerset House London | View on map
1837 - 1856

School located at South Kensington London | View on map
1857
From 1857 the College was housed in temporary buildings in South Kensington until the permanent premises were opened in 1863: see the essay 'History and Objects of the College', 'Prospectus', 1949-1950, p. 26.

Exhibitions, Courses, Meetings and other Events

Organized Royal College of Art Exhibition, 1938
15 July 1938 - 30 July 1938

Classes offered by Design and Crafts Classes (Royal College of Art), 1926-1952
1926 (Presumed) - 1952 (Presumed)

Organized Sculpture Classes (School of Sculpture, Royal College of Art), 1897-1952
1926 (Circa) - 1952 (Circa)

Organized Royal Exhibitions Scholarship, 1894
1894 (Circa)

Organized National Art Training School Free Studentships, 1894
1894 (Presumed)

Organized Modelling Studentships (National Art Training School, South Kensington), 1894
1894 (Presumed)

Organized Travelling Scholarship (National Art Training School, South Kensington), 1894
1894 (Circa)

Organized National Scholarships, 1863
1863 (Circa)
See this event page for selected scholarship winners from 1863 to 1884.

Organized Exhibition of Works of Art-Manufacture, Designed or Executed by Students of the Schools of Art in Connection with the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington, London, 1858

Institutional and Business Connections

Associated with The Glasgow School of Art
1898 (Circa)
1775 works, executed by 343 students, were forwarded to South Kensington for Examination.

Collaborated with School of Art Wood Carving

Collaborated with Royal Academy Schools
1894 (Circa)
The 1894 National Art Training School 'Prospectus' notes that 'Students of the Royal Academy who desire to become Teachers, and who have attended the Life Class or Upper Division of the Architectural Class there for six months during the last three years, or persons who have been students at the Royal Academy within the last three years, are qualified for admission to the Training School, and to receive an allowance of 15s. per week for the 42 weeks of the session'. 'Students of the Royal School of Art Needlework who desire to avail themselves of the instruction in the National Art Training School are admitted on payment of a fee ...' 'Students of the School of Wood Carving who wish to attend the lectures on Design are admitted without entrance fee and at hald the fee for the course of lectures': see p. 6.

Successor to National Art Training School (1853-96)
All information concerning the National Art Training School (and its predecessor, the Government School of Design) is contained within the Royal College of Art record

Associated People

Adjudicators on panel included (Aimé) Jules Dalou
1877 - 1880
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

ARCAs included James Ward
Ward listed as 'A.R.C.A.', Annual Distribution of Prizes- Prize List and Awards, published in Dublin in 1915.

ARCAs included Percy Oswald Reeves
p. 1, Oswald Reeves listed as ARCA, 'officer of the school'.

ARCAs included George Atkinson
1915
p. 1, Atkinson listed as ARHA, ARCA and 'Second Master' of the school.

Assistant principals included R.W. Herman
1852 - 1878
Listed as Assistant Master from 1852 to 1876, and as Deputy Head Master and Registrar from 1876 to 1878. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Assistant principals included (Henry Charles) Innes Fripp
1892 - 1895
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Assistant teachers included Oliver Sheppard
As listed in Appendix L to Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the work carried on by the RHA and MSA, Dublin, 1906, p. 90. Location where Oliver Sheppard acted as Assistant to Professor Lanteri, RCA (Lond.), at the special summer courses for 2 years.

Assistant teachers of architecture included P.E. O'Connor
1934 - 1935
Listed as an assistant teacher of architecture in the School's 1934-1935 prospectus.

Assistant teachers of architecture included Laurence King
1936 - 1952
Listed as an assistant teacher in the School of Architecture in the College's prospectuses from 1936-1937 to 1951-1952.

Assistant teachers of metal work included J. Innocent
1905 - 1907
Listed as an assistant instructor of metal work and enamelling. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 61.

Assistant teachers of metal work included Harry George Murphy
1907
Listed as an instructor of metal work and enamelling. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 61. No end date is given, however, it is likely that Murphy was still working at the school when the list was published in 1911.

Assistant teachers of metal work included S.G. Wiseman
1907
Listed as an assistant instructor of metal work and enamelling. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. No end date is given, however, it is likely that Wiseman was still working at the school when the list was published in 1911.

Assistant teachers of modeling included Richard Arthur Ledward
1882 - 1883 (Presumed)
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. See also 'List of National Scholars', (1884), p. 190.

Assistant teachers of modeling included Robert Stark
1883 - 1886
'List of Staff' includes 'R. Stark' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Assistant teachers of modeling included Benjamin Clemens
1911
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. No end date is given, however, it is likely that Clemens was still working at the school when the list was published.

Assistant teachers of modeling included Herbert William Palliser
1931 - 1948
Listed as an 'Assistant Teacher' in the School of Sculpture in the 1931-1932 prospectus. Last listed in the 1947-1948 prospectus.

Designers included Percy Metcalfe
1921
The College's war memorial was designed and executed by Percy Metcalfe in 1921. He exhibited the design at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1921 (cat. no. 1133).

Employed Enrico Cantoni
1904 (Circa)
As 'moulder'

Gave prize to George Trobridge
Gold Medal for Painting

Gave prize to George Galway MacCann
1932
Awarded largely on the commendation of teacher Henry Moore.

Gave prize to W. R. Gordon
1897
Awarded for 'Sets of Works'

Gave scholarship to Carew-Smyth
1885
Scholarship for Master in Training

Gave scholarship to George Trobridge
1875 - 1880

Gave scholarship to Oliver Sheppard
1888 - 1891

Gave scholarship to George Galway MacCann
1929

Principals included Richard Burchett
1851 - 1875
Listed as Head Master between these dates: see 'Appendix II. Previous Heads of the Royal College of Art' in the College's 1939-1940 Prospectus. Burchett was previously Master of classes of form and Ornament from 1847 to 1852: see 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Principals included John Charles Lewis Sparkes
1875 - 1898
Listed as Headmaster from 1875 to 1881, and as Principal from 1881 to 1898. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. See also 'Appendix II. Previous Heads of the Royal College of Art' in the College's 1939-1940 Prospectus. See also the 1894 National Art Training School Prospectus. He is last listed in the 1897 prospectus.

Principals included Edward John Poynter
1875 - 1881
Listed as Principal. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. See also 'Appendix II. Previous Heads of the Royal College of Art' in the College's 1939-1940 Prospectus. Poynter was successor to Richard Redgrave who held the post of the Department of Science and Art's Inspector for Art. A letter from F. R. Sandford to the Department of Science and Art (2 September, 1881), records Poynter's resignation. The letter states that 'he [Poynter] finds that he cannot continue to devote as much time to his public duties as they now require, consistently with due attention to his work as an Artist, which it was always understood that he should prosecute after he joined the staff of the Department'. The letter also records that Poynter had held the following posts: 'Principal of the Art Training School', 'Director of Instruction in the Art Schools and Classes, and in the Elementary Schools throughout the United Kingdom', 'Adviser to the Department on all matters connected with the Art Branch of the South Kensington Museum and the purchases to be made for it', and 'Chief Executive Officer of the Art Division'. In 1881 Poynter's salary was £890.

Principals included Walter Crane
1898 - 1899
See the 1898 National Art Training School 'Prospectus'.

Principals included Morton
1899 - 1900
Listed as Acting Headmaster. See 'Appendix II. Previous Heads of the Royal College of Art' in the College's 1939-1940 Prospectus.

Principals included Augustus Spencer
1900 - 1920
Listed as Headmaster from 1900 to 1902, and as Principal and Headmaster from 1902 to 1930. See 'Appendix II. Previous Heads of the Royal College of Art' in the College's 1939-1940 Prospectus.

Principals included J. Edsall Allen
1902 (Circa) - 1937 (Circa)
Listed as Principal in the first avaliable prospectus from 1902-1903. Still listed in 1922-1923. Note that there are no avaliable school prospectuses from 1924 to 1937; in the 1938-1939 prospectus G. R. Woolway is listed as Principal.

Principals included William Rothenstein
1919 - 1935
In 1919 Rothenstein was appointed as a visitor by the Board of Education to prepare a report on the present state of the Royal College of Art. On the strength of this document, Rothenstein was made Principal. He is last listed in the 1934-35 prospectus.

Principals included Percy H. Jowett
1936 - 1948
See the College's prospectuses from 1936-1937 to 1947-1948.

Principals included Robin Darwin
1948 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as Principal in the College's prospectuses from 1948-1949 onwards. Darwin was still acting Principal in 1951-1952, the last year sampled for this database.

Professors included R.W. Baker
1948 - 1952
Listed as the Professor of the School of Ceramics in the College's prosepctus from 1948-1949. Baker was still Professor in 1951-1952.

Professors included R.D. Russell
1949 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as Professor of the School of Wood, Metals and Plastics from 1949-50 onwards. Russell still held this position in 1951-1952.

Professors of architecture included (Arthur) Beresford Pite
1900 - 1923
See 'Appendix III. Post Holders of the Post of Professor at the Royal College of Art from 1900 (Date of re-organisation)' in the College's 1939-1940 Prospectus.

Professors of architecture included J. Hubert Worthington
1923 (Presumed) - 1928
See 'Appendix III. Post Holders of the Post of Professor at the Royal College of Art from 1900 (Date of re-organisation)' in the College's 1939-1940 Prospectus.

Professors of architecture included William Godfrey Newton
1928 - 1933
See 'Appendix III. Post Holders of the Post of Professor at the Royal College of Art from 1900 (Date of re-organisation)' in the College's 1939-1940 Prospectus.

Professors of architecture included Arthur Bedford Knapp-Fisher
1933 - 1940 (Circa)
First listed in the College's 1933-1934 prospectus. Last listed in 1939-1940. Note that from 1941 to 1945 the College used an 'Abridged Prospectus' that does not list staff names. Knapp-Fisher is not listed in the 1946-1947 prospectus.

Professors of architecture included Basil R. Ward
1947 - 1952
Listed as Professor of Architecture in the College's prospectuses from 1947-1948 onwards. Basil is still listed as Professor in 1951-1952.

Professors of design included William Richard Lethaby
1900 - 1918
Listed as Professor of the School of Design in the College's 1933-1934 Prospectus, list of 'Previous Holders of the Post of Professor'.

Professors of design included Robert Anning Bell
1918 - 1924
Listed as Professor of the School of Design in a list of 'Previous Holders of the Post of Profssor', in 'Prospectus of the Royal College of Art', 1933-1934.

Professors of design included Ernest William Tristram
1947 - 1948
Listed as Professor of Design in the College's 1947-1948 prospectus.

Professors of painting included Gerald E. Moira
1900 - 1923
Taught mural painting and illustration.

Professors of sculpture included Edouard Lanteri
1900 - 1917
See a list of 'Previous Holders of the Post of Professor' in the School Prospectus (1926-1927), unpaged.

Professors of sculpture included Francis Derwent Wood
1918 - 1924
See a list of 'Previous Holders of the Post of Professor' in the School Prospectus (1926-1927), unpaged.

Professors of sculpture included Ernest Cole
1924 - 1926
See a list of 'Previous Holders of the Post of Professor' in the School Prospectus (1926-1927), unpaged.

Professors of sculpture included Gilbert Ledward
1927 - 1929
Listed as Professor of the School of Sculpture between 1927-9 in the annual prospectuses. Ledward resigned due to a disagreement with the principal, Sir William Rothenstein.

Professors of sculpture included Richard Louis Garbe
1930 - 1946
He retired in 1946

Professors of sculpture included Frank Owen Dobson
1946 - 1953
First listed as Professor of Sculpture in the College's 1946-1947 prospectus.

Professors of sculpture included John Rattenbury Skeaping
1953
See Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 318.

Students included Walter Marsden
21 November 1919
Listed as a student at the College (no start date is given). Left the College in the 1919-1920 session. Subsequent profession is described as 'Modelling on Commission': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 126.

Students included Herbert Henry Grimwood

Students included Alice Jacob
Appendix L, p. 90. 'Educated at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin and at the Royal College of Art; holds Art MAster's Certificate (Board of Education) Groups I and II'.

Students included William Midgley
Won a scholarship to the school whilst studying at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. Studied at the Royal College of Art under Lanteri. Here he was awarded 'The Travelling Scolarship' which enabled him to study in Rome. No dates are given. See 'Mr. William Midgley', in the Birmingham Post, 23 June, 1933 in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 21, p. 114.

Students included Henry Spencer Moore
20 July 1923
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1923 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Also listed the winner of a £10 prize for sculpture.

Students included Cecilia A.D. Kilburn
15 July 1927
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1927 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Mildred Lockyer
15 July 1927
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Design' in the College's 1927 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Also awarded a £10 prize for pottery and tiles.

Students included Thomas Bayliss Huxley- Jones
17 July 1931
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1931 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Jones was awarded the £10 prize for sculpture in the same year. In the 1932 Diploma list Jones is listed as the recipient of the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.

Students included Edith E. Jukes
14 July 1932
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1932 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included George Galway MacCann
14 July 1932
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1932 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. McCan was also awarded a £10 prize for sculpture in the same year.

Students included L.E.T. Lane
21 July 1933
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1933 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Mary P. K. Martyn
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Allan G. King
17 July 1936
'A. G. King' is listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1936 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In 1937 King was awarded a 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.

Students included Hilda D. Mason
1936 (Presumed)
Awarded a Federation of British Industries prize for pottery in 1936: see the College's 'Distribution of Diplomas' list, 1936.

Students included Rhoda Lazarus
16 July 1937
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1937 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included G.F. Mawson
16 July 1937
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1937 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Wanda J. Jasinaska
July 1944
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1944 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included William Alfred Kirkby
1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Rita Mary Ling
1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included John Frank Matthews
July 1949 (Presumed)
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Sheila Mary Mitchell
July 1951
Listed as a 'Second Class' graduate from the School of Sculpture in the College's 1951 'Convocation' list.

Students included Barbara L. Pigott
1931
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1930 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Also awarded a £10 prize for sculpture. Pigott was awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture in 1931.

Students included A. Newman
19 July 1935
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1935 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included W.J. Pezare
1936 (Presumed)
Awarded a Federation of British Industries prize for pottery in 1936: see the College's 'Distribution of Diplomas' list, 1936.

Students included Eric Harry Peskett
15 July 1938
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1938 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Peskett was awarded a £10 prize for sculpture in the same year. In 1939 Peskett was awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.

Students included N. F. Pierce
15 July 1938
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1938 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included N.G. Pansare
12 July 1940
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1940 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Betty Pochin
July 1941
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1941 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included P.G. Potter
July 1944 (Circa)
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1944 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included F.G. Petter
1945 (Presumed)
Petter was awarded a prize for sculpture in 1945: see 'Distribution of Diplomas', 1945.

Students included Douglas Frederick Nicholson
July 1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Clarence Tom Painter
July 1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Mary Muriel Painter
July 1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Joan Palmer
July 1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Kenneth Pigott
July 1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Amy Walford
1899 (Circa)
Held a national scholarship at the College. No dates are given; however, Walford began teaching at Bromsgrove School of Art in 1900. See Townshend 'The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts', in Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild', (1999), p. 17.

Students included (Jocelyn) Barbara Hepworth
20 July 1923 (Presumed)
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1923 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Note that Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth suggests that Hepworth was a student from 1921-1925; see ‘The Royal College of Art' (1991), appendix D, p. 595, no source is given.

Students included E. Rogers
15 July 1927
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1927 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Also listed as the winner of the £10 prize for sculpture.

Students included Priscilla M. Baumer
15 July 1927
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1927 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included A.B. Ingram
15 July 1927
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1927 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Margaret Vaughan-Robinson
15 July 1927
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1927 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Thomas W. Swindlehurst
15 July 1927
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Design' in the College's 1927 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Also awarded a £10 prize for silverware, jewellery and enamelling.

Students included Vera Hillary
15 July 1927
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Design' in the College's 1927 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Also awarded a £10 prize for silverware, jewellery and enamelling.

Students included J. Clarkson
18 July 1930
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1930 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Alma M. Ramsey
18 July 1930
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1930 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Dorothy L. Riley
18 July 1930
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1930 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included C.L. Steynberg
18 July 1930
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1930 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included R. L. Gapper
18 July 1930
Listed as the recipient of a 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture, in the College's 1930 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Also the recipient of the first prize for pottery, awarded by the Federation of British Industries that year.

Students included W.J.L. Gaydon
18 July 1930
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Design' in the College's 1930 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Also the recipient of the second prize for pottery, awarded by the Federation of British Industries that year.

Students included C.J. Dring
18 July 1930
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Design' in the College's 1930 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Also the recipient of the third prize for pottery, awarded by the Federation of British Industries that year.

Students included Cynthia B. Burnley
17 July 1931
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1931 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included R.H.L. Castelnau-Bucher
17 July 1931
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1931 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Maud E.D. Cranfield
17 July 1931
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1931 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Freda N. Skinner
17 July 1931
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1931 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included C.J. Dring
17 July 1931
Listed as the recipient of a prize of £4 4s for pottery and tiles in the College's 1931 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Vera M. Sadler
17 July 1931
Listed as the recipient of a prize of £4 4s for pottery and tiles in the College's 1931 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included V.G. Skellern
1934 (Presumed)
Listed as the recipient of the Federation of British Industries Prize of £4 4s for pottery and tiles, in the College's 1931 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In the 1932 Diploma list Skellern was awarded the Federation Prize of £5 for pottery. In 1934 he recieved the same prize (£2 2s) for pottery.

Students included Margaret S. B. Grundy
14 July 1932
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1932 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Rose S. S. Clark
14 July 1932
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1932 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Margaret Elizabeth (Betty) McCord
21 July 1933
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1933 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Clements was also awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.

Students included Margaret G. Easterbrook
21 July 1933
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1933 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included K.C. Roy
21 July 1933
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1933 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Roy was awarded the £10 prize for sculpture.

Students included H.R. Allen
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In 1935 Allen was awarded the College's £10 Prize for sculpture.

Students included P. Brown
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Geoffrey Hampton Deeley
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Deeley was also awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture in the same year.

Students included J.D. Edler
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Edler was also awarded the £10 prize for sculpture in the same year. In 1935 Edler was awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.

Students included H.S. Hatcher
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Darsie Rawlins
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Winifred I. Brankston
19 July 1935
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1935 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Eleanor M. Hetherington
19 July 1935
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1935 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Kathleen Whitehead
19 July 1935
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1935 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Whitehead was awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' for 'Sculpture' in 1936.

Students included L.H.H. Glover
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Design' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Glover was also awarded the Federation of British Industries prize of £5 5s for pottery. In 1935 Glover was awarded the same prize for pottery.

Students included J.D. Hackley
20 July 1934
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Design' in the College's 1934 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Hackley was also awarded the Federation of British Industries prize of £5 5s for pottery in 1935.

Students included J.E. Cottrell
1936 (Presumed)
Awarded a Federation of British Industries prize for pottery in 1936: see the College's 'Distribution of Diplomas' list, 1936.

Students included J.G. Simpson
1936 (Presumed)
Awarded a Federation of British Industries prize for pottery in 1936: see the College's 'Distribution of Diplomas' list, 1936.

Students included P. Blackburn
16 July 1937
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1937 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In 1938 Blackburn was awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.

Students included Margaret S. Frost
16 July 1937
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1937 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included G.H. Gleaves
16 July 1937
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1937 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Gleaves was awarded a £10 prize for sculpture in the same year.

Students included Diane C. M. Tucker
15 July 1938
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1938 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included George Victor Haywood
14 July 1939
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1939 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included G.B. Bandivdekar
12 July 1940
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1940 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Kathleen nee Hoey Brackenbury
12 July 1940
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1940 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Sheila H. Hallinan
12 July 1940
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1940 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Vanda Cutler
July 1941
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1941 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included T.B. Green
July 1941
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1941 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In the same year Green was also awarded a prize for sculpture.

Students included Shirin Virjee
July 1941
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1941 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In the same year Virjee was awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.

Students included Gabrielle B. Wise
July 1942
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1942 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Audrey Wallis
July 1943
Listed as the recipient of a prize for sculpture in the College's 1942 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1943 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In the same year Wallis was awarded the 'Travelling Scholarship' and 'Medal' for sculpture.

Students included Audrey Freakley
July 1943
Listed as the recipient of a prize for sculpture in the College's 1942 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1943 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Joan E. Clarke
July 1945
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1945 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Sydney S. Birnie Stewart
1945
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1945 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Geoffrey Maurice Dudley
July 1946
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1946 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Dudley was awarded a 'Travelling Scholarship for sculpture in the same year.

Students included Pamela Scott
July 1946
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1946 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Scott was awarded a prize for sculpture in the same year.

Students included Douglas Wain-Hobson
July 1946
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1946 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Wain-Hobson was awarded a 'Medal for Special Distinction' in sculpture in the same year.

Students included Ernest Gordon Adsetts
July 1947
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1947 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Harold Frederic Coates
July 1947
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1947 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Ronald Cour
July 1947
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1947 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included George Fullard
July 1947
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1947 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In the same year Fullard was awarded a 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.

Students included Keith Godwin
July 1947
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1947 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Aileen Muriel Hoey
July 1947
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1947 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In the same year Hoey was awarded a prize for sculpture.

Students included Barbara Joan Waller
July 1947
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1947 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Gabrielle Beatrice Whimster
July 1947
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1947 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Margaret Booth
July 1948
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1948 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In the same year Booth was awarded a prize for sculpture.

Students included Harold Joseph Cove
July 1948
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1948 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Cove was awarded a 'Medal for Special Distinction' in sculpture in the same year.

Students included Imogen Richardson
1948
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1948 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Susan Elizabeth Sanderson
July 1948
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1948 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Sanderson was awarded a prize for life drawing in the same year.

Students included Vera Mary Small
July 1948
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1948 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Keith Goodwin
July 1948 (Presumed)
Listed as the winnier of the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture in this year, in the College's 1948 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Goodwin is not, however, listed as a graduate from the School of Sculpture in this list.

Students included Dale Cicely
July 1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Charles Jeffery Hopkins
1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Norman Sillman
July 1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Mary Elizabeth Stoppani
July 1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Margaret Whincop
July 1949
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Franta Belsky
July 1950
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' with 'First Class' in the College's 1950 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Michael Gaspard Rizzello
July 1951 (Presumed)
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' with 'First Class' in the College's 1950 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Rizzello was awarded a 'Travelling Scholarship' and first place in the 'College Drawing Prize' in the same year. Rizzello is listed in the College's 1951 'Convocation' list as a forth year student, and as the winner of the Prix de Rome in Sculpture.

Students included Brian Anthony Asquith
July 1950
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' with 'Second Class' in the College's 1950 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Asquith was awarded a 'Continuation Scholarship' in the same year. In the College's 1951 'Convocation' list Asquith is listed as a forth year student, and as an exhibitor at the Arts Council's 'Sculpture in the Home' exhibition.

Students included Dorothy Ann Hughes
July 1950
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' with 'Second Class' in the College's 1950 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Hughes was awarded a 'Continuation Scholarship' in the same year.

Students included Mary Lumley Warner
July 1950
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' with 'Second Class' in the College's 1950 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Ralph Molyneux Burton
July 1950
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' with 'Pass' in the College's 1950 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Marcus Wilson Clarke
July 1951
Listed as a 'First Class' graduate from the School of Sculpture in the College's 1951 'Convocation' list. Clarke was also awarded a 'Major Travelling Scholarship' in the same year.

Students included Alan Tom Coleman
July 1951
Listed as a 'First Class' graduate from the School of Sculpture in the College's 1951 'Convocation' list. The list also notes that works by the artist were chosen for the Arts Council's exhibition 'Sculpture in the Home', in the same year.

Students included Leslie Tillotson Thornton
July 1951
Listed as a 'Second Class' graduate from the School of Sculpture in the College's 1951 'Convocation' list.

Students included Donald Brindley
July 1951
Listed as a graduate from the School of Sculpture with a 'Pass', in the College's 1951 'Convocation' list.

Students included Bridget Wreford
July 1951
Listed as a 'Second Class' graduate from the School of Sculpture in the College's 1951 'Convocation' list. Wreford was also awarded a 'Continuation Scholarship' in the same year.

Students included Vincent Hill
February 1908
Listed as a graduate of the College in 1908. Subsequently appointed teacher of modelling at the School of Art, Ramsgate (?) in September 1910: see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 1.

Students included Cecil C. B. Walker
19 November 1920
Left the College in the 1920-1921 session; no start date is given. Subsequent profession is described as 'Metal craftsman': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 134. See also loose pages bound within this volume.

Students included Henry Ball
14 October 1921
A student named Henry Ball is listed as leaving the College in the 1921-1922 session; no start date is given. Subsequent appointment is described as 'Joined Nottingham School of Art': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 136.

Students included A.H. Sharp
1921 (Presumed)
Probably left the College in the 1920-1921 session. Subsquent profession is listed as Modelling Master of Darlington School of Art. See 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), unpaged loose set of pages within this volume.

Students included Ivor Beaumont

Students included (James) Seamus Stoupe

Students included Florence Harriet Steele
1896 (Circa)
In 1896 she won a gold medal and two bronze medals

Students included Margaret May Giles
During the 1890s

Students included William Harbutt
1869 - 1874

Students included Walter Herbert Singer
1871 - 1873
He was a National Scholar between these dates.

Students included Rowland James Morris
1873 (Presumed)

Students included Edgar Ratcliffe Singer
1876 - 1879
He was a National Scholar between these dates.

Students included Felix Martin Miller
1877 (Circa) - 1878 (Circa)

Students included Albert Arthur Toft
1879 (Probable) - 1881 (Probable)
See 'Birmingham Sculptor', Birmingham Mail, 10 October, 1925, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 12, (1 December 1924-16 February 1926), pp. 125-126. The article notes that Toft gained 'a national scholarship from the Newcastle-under-Lyme School of Art, at the age of 17, which enabled him to study at the Royal College of Art at South Kensington for two years'.

Students included Frank Bowcher
1881 (Circa)

Students included Sophia Rosamond Praeger
1887 (Circa)

Students included Francis Derwent Wood
1889 (Circa)

Students included Frances Bartholomew
1895

Students included Henry Colley
1895 (Circa)

Students included H. Saunders
1895 (Circa)

Students included Lucy Gwendolen Williams
1895 (Circa) - 1897 (Circa)

Students included Robert Arthur Dawson
1896

Students included Stanley Nicholson Babb
1897 (Circa) - 1898
Awarded a two-year British Institution Scholarship worth £50 p.a. in 1897.

Students included Joseph Else
September 1900 - September 1901
See 'Register of Full-Time Teachers, Nottingham School of Art' (c. 1889-1921), index no. 4.

Students included Mary Gaskell Gillick
1902 (Circa)

Students included Maggie Richardson Mitchell
1904 (Presumed) - 1910
Listed as a student at the College for five and a half years. Left the College in the 1908-1908 session, but attended again in February to July 1910. Richardson's subsequent profession is listed as a modeller and sculptor: see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 16 and p. 30.

Students included Percy H. Jowett
1904 (Presumed) - 1909
Listed as a student at the College for five years. Upon graduating from College in the 1908-1909 session, Jowett is decsribed as having a travelling scholarship to Italy and then as techer at 'Beckenham School of Art': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 12. Note that Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth gives the dates 1902-1907 in ‘The Royal College of Art' (1991), vol. 3, p. 595.

Students included Amy Eyre
1904 (Circa) - 1908
Listed as a graduate of the College in 1907-1908. Studied for four years, one of which was in the 'metal work class only'. Subsequent profession is listed as an evening teacher 'L.C.C., now married - designer, worker in metal and jewellery, Chichester': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 4.

Students included Perry Hill
1904 (Presumed) - 1909
Listed as a student at the College for five years years. Upon leaving the College as a sculpture graduate in the 1908-1909 session, Hill's profession is described as 'teaching appointment in America, I believe. Teacher of modelling & Art Crafts at Dundee Tech. College': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 12.

Students included Harry C. Hall
1904 (Presumed) - 1909
Listed as a student at the College for five years. Upon graduating from College as a sculpture graduate in the 1908-1909 session, Hall's profession is described as 2nd Master School of Art, Swansea: see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 12.

Students included Newbury Abbot Trent
1904 (Presumed) - 1909
Listed as a student at the College for five years. Graduated from College as a sculpture (and possibly architecture)student in the 1908-1909 session. Trent's profession is listed as 'Teacher of Design, West Ham Sch of Art; Scholarship 'modelling' Royal Academy': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 18. Note that only the second initial A. and surname are clearly legible in this hand written entry; however, the first initial is probably an 'N'.

Students included Phoebe Gertrude Stabler
1904 (Presumed) - 1911 (Presumed)

Students included H.H. Stansfield
October 1905 - December 1907
Listed as a graduate of the College in 1907. Appointed 'Assistant - Crafts. School of Art, Ipswich': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 2.

Students included Charles Leighfield Jonah Doman
1905 (Circa) - 1908 (Presumed)
Listed as a student at the College for two years and three months. In 1906 he was awarded a National Scholarship. Upon leaving the College as a sculpture graduate in the 1907-1908 session, Doman's profession is described as second Master, School of Art Putney: see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 10.

Students included George Atkinson
October 1905 - February 1910
A 'G. K. Atkinson' is listed as a student at the College for five years. One of Atkinson's subsequent professions after leaving the College is described as teaching master in Ireland: see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 22.

Students included F. Newland Smith
1905 (Presumed) - 21 May 1910
Listed as a student at the College for 'nearly' five years. Smith's subsequent profession is listed as metal work instructor at the School of Art, Manchester: see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 24.

Students included Gilbert Ledward
1905 (Presumed) - November 1910
Listed as a student at the College (probably of modelling) for five years. Left the College in the 1910-1911 session. Ledward's subsequent professions are decsribed as follows: 'B. I. Scholarship - Will hold it R. A. Schools. Modelling Master - Lambeth School of Art'. See 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 30.

Students included (Sydney) Langford Jones
1905 (Circa) - 1911 (Presumed)
An 'S. Langford Jones' is listed as a student at the College for five and a half years. Jones left the College in the 1910-1911 session and his profession is listed as 'Designer and Craftsman in Metal Work': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 38.

Students included Sidney Keates Cope
1906 (Circa) - 1908 (Presumed)
Listed as a student at the College for two years. Cope's profession upon leaving the College in 1907-1908 is described as a 'Pottery Designer & Modeller, Stoke on Trent': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 10. Note that in this handwritten register Cope's first initial is unclear, however, the K. Cope is clearly legible and its is, therefore, presumably the same person.

Students included Wilfred Wetherell
1906 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)
Listed as a student at the College for two and a half years. Upon leaving the College in the 1908-1909 session as an 'A.R.C.A. 'Des'', Wetherell's profession is described as 'Assistant Master (Design and Crafts), Sch of Art, Birmingham': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 18.

Students included Anne Crawford Acheson
1906 - 18 January 1910
'Annie Acheson' is featured in the College's 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 20. (Annie was her childhood name which she dropped in favour of Anne while studying in London) She was a student of the R. C. A. for three years and three months and her profession upon leaving the College on the 18 January 1910, is described as Art Mistress of a Secondary School in Putney, London. Based on Llewellyn (2010) Acheson was awarded a studentship to the RCA in 1906. She received her diploma in modelling after two and a half years study in 1909. Acheson stayed another year in the Design school having already acquired the necessary skills in wood carving, metal work, enamelling and embroidery.

Students included Charles Vyse
1906 (Presumed) - February 1911
A 'C. Vyse' is listed as a student at the College for five years. Left the College in the 1910-1911 session. Vyse's subsequent profession is decsribed as 'sculptor & 'pri [? unclear in the manuscript] teaching': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 34.

Students included F.(?), C. Stone
1906 (Circa) - 1911 (Circa)
Listed as a student at the College for five years. Left the College in the 1910-1911 session and is listed as 'Assist. Master Sch. of Art, Burslem': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 40.

Students included Charles Sargeant Jagger
1907 - 1911
See Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth, ‘The Royal College of Art' (1991), appendix D, p. 595.

Students included B. Hatton
1907 (Circa) - 1908 (Circa)
Listed as a student at the College for half a term between 1907 and 1908. Hatton's profession upon leaving the College is listed as a sculptor and modeller : see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 6.

Students included John W. M. Reid
1907 (Circa) - 1912
Listed as a student at the College for four and a half years. Left the College in the 1911-1912 session and is listed as 'modelling master - School of Art, Newcastle upon Tyne': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 54.

Students included T.H. Hughes
1908 - 1910
Listed as a student at the College for two years. Left the College in the 1909-1910 session. The artist's subsequent profession is listed as Instructor in Architecture at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen: see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 24.

Students included Harold Henry Holden
1908 - 1910
Listed as a student at the College for two years. Left the College in the 1909-1910 session. Holden's subsequent professions are recorded as Assistant Master at Leeds (presumably Leeds School of Art) and Head Master of Cheltenham School of Art (from June 1914): see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), pp. 27-28.

Students included Alexander R. Fraser
October 1908 - December 1910
Listed as a student at the College for two years and two and a half months. Fraser's profession upon leaving the College is listed as 'Assistant to W. Goscombe John, R. A.': See 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 32.

Students included Theodore Barker
1908 (Presumed) - 1911
Listed as a student of modelling at the College for three years. Left the College in the 1910-1911 session. Barker's subsequent profession is described as '2nd Master and Modelling Master. Sch. of Art. Wallasey, Cheshire'. See 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 36.

Students included Albert Victor Vernon Toft Jnr.
1908 (Circa) - 23 March 1912
Listed as a student at the College for three and a half years. Left the College in the 1911-1912 session and is listed as a 'Sculptor's Assistant': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 46.

Students included Harold James Youngman
1908 (Circa) - 1912
Listed as a student at the College for four years. Left the College in the 1911-1912 session and is listed as 'Sculptors Assistant to Sir [another initial is inserted here that is unclear in the manuscript but presumably W.] Goscombe John - R. A.': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 58.

Students included Harold Brownsword
1908 (Circa) - 1913
'H. Brownsword' [presumably Harold Brownsword] is listed as a student at the College for five years. Left the College in the 1912-1913 session and is listed as a being 'engaged as sculptor': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 62.

Students included Margaret E. Pye
1909 - 1910
Listed as a student at the College for one year. Left the College in the 1909-1910 session. Pye's subsequent profession is described as 'Sculptor': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 28.

Students included Stanley H. North
1909 (Circa) - 1912
Listed as a student at the College for three years. Left the College in the 1911-1912 session and is listed as a 'worker in stained glass': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 54.

Students included (Joseph) Hermon Cawthra
1909 (Circa) - 1911 (Circa)
Listed as a student at the College for two years. Left the College in the 1910-1911 session and is listed as 'Assistant to Sculptor W. Broadbent': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 36.

Students included Leon Underwood
1910 - 1913
See Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth, ‘The Royal College of Art' (1991), appendix D, p. 596.

Students included Helen Copsey
1910 (Circa) - 22 April 1912
Listed as a student at the College for one and a half years. Left the College in the 1911-1912 session and is listed as a 'Teacher Arts and Crafts - St. Maun [? unclear in manuscript] College': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 46.

Students included R. Pearson
1912 (Presumed) - 19 February 1913
Listed as a student at the College for eight terms. Left the College in the 1912-1913 session and is listed as a 'Metal Worker. Design Master of Chelsea Pol. 1913-14': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 60.

Students included Charles Thomas Wheeler
1912 - 1917

Students included W. S. Woodman
1913 (Circa) - 1914
Listed as a student at the College for eight terms. Left the College in the 1913-1914 session and is listed as 'Art Director - Minton's Ltd. Stoke on Trent': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 84.

Students included Edith A. Langley
1913 (Circa) - 7 July 1916
Listed as a student at the College for eleven terms. Left the College in the 1915-1916 session. Subsequent profession is described as 'Metal Worker': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 112.

Students included Robert Sargent Austin
1914 - 1922
See Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth, ‘The Royal College of Art' (1991), appendix D, p. 596.

Students included James Bateman
1914 (Circa) - 18 December 1920
Listed as a student at the College for one and a half terms. Left the College on the 16 April, 1915 and served in the army: see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 88. Presumably rejoined the College (no date is given) as James Bateman is listed again as a College leaver on the 18 December, 1920. His subsequent appointment is listed as 'studying at Slade School of Art' and as an assistant at Cheltenham School of Art: see p. 130.

Students included Alfred Frank Hardiman
1914 (Circa) - 2 July 1915
Listed as a student at the College for six terms. Left the College in the 1914-1915 session to study at the Royal Academy: see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 96.

Students included Frederick E. C. Gardner
1914 (Circa) - 6 July 1917
Listed as a student at the College for ten terms. Left the College in the 1916-1917 session. Subsequent profession is first described as 'no employment' and then as 'Instructor of Modelling Leicester School of Art': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 114.

Students included Dora May Billington
1914 (Circa) - 6 July 1917
Listed as a student at the College for eleven terms. Left the College in the 1916-1917 session. Subsequent profession is described as 'Instructor - Pottery Class - RCA': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 114.

Students included E.N. Johansen
1916 (Circa) - 6 July 1917
Listed as a student at the College for four terms. Left the College in the 1916-1917 session. Subsequent profession is described as 'Modeller and Designer at John Line and Sons, Tottenham Court Road': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 116.

Students included Percy Metcalfe
1920 (Circa) - 1921 (Presumed)
Probably left the College in the 1920-1921 session. See 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), unpaged loose set of pages within this volume.

Students included (George) Rayner Hoff
1920 - 1921

Students included Ernest Michael Dinkel
1921 (Presumed) - 1925 (Presumed)
See Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth, ‘The Royal College of Art' (1991), appendix D, p. 597.

Students included L.J. Holland-Young
1921 (Circa) - 1922
Left the College in the 1921-1922 session. Subsequent profession is listed as woodwork instructor at Hamstead Garden Suburb School of Art, 1 day per week, and as carrying out small commissions. See 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), unpaged loose set of pages within this volume.

Students included George Stephenson
1921 (Circa) - 1922
Left the College in the 1921-1922 session. Subsequent profession is listed as Modelling master one day per week at Hampstead Garden Suburb School of Art. See 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), unpaged loose set of pages within this volume.

Students included Douglas Percy Bliss
1922 (Presumed) - 1926 (Presumed)
See Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth, ‘The Royal College of Art' (1991), appendix D, p. 597.

Students included Thomas Bayley
1922 (Circa) - 1923 (Presumed)
Left the College in the 1922-1923 session; no start date is given. Subsequent profession is described as modelling master, Cheltenham School of Art, and 'sculptor'. See 'Register of Students', (1907-1924), p. 146 and loose pages bound within this volume.

Students included Gunthorpe
1922 (Circa) - 1923 (Presumed)
Left the College in the 1922-1923 session; no start date is given. Subsequent employment is described as 'Modelling Exhibits for Wembley Exhibition. Art Teacher at William Ellis School Gospel Oak. Private Commissions': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), loose pages bound within this volume.

Students included Alfred K. Lawrence
1923 (Circa) - 1924 (Presumed)
Left the College in the 1923-1924 session; no start date is given. Subsequent employment is described as 'Taken up Prix de Rome Scholarship': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), loose pages bound within this volume and dated 1923-1924.

Students included Albert Pountney
1935 - 15 July 1938
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1938 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Arnold Machin
1937 - July 1940
Reilly and Savage gives the dates 1937-1940; see 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 225. Machin is listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1940 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. He also recieved a 'Medal awarded for special distinction' in sculpture, and the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture, in the same year.

Students included Charles Walter Edward Lewis
1938 (Presumed) - 1939 (Presumed)
Lewis was awarded a £5 prize for sculpture in the College's 'Distribution of Diplomas' list in 1939.

Students included H. H. Plackett
1938 (Circa) - 12 July 1940
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1940 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Students included Annesley Tittensor
1938 (Circa) - 12 July 1940
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1940 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Tittensor was also awarded a prize for sculpture in the same year.

Students included R. L. Alfred
1938 (Presumed)
Exhibited in the 1938 student display.

Students included N. Ball
1938
Exhibited in the 1938 student display.

Students included A. Forrest
1938 (Circa)
Exhibited in the 1938 student display.

Students included R.A. Hill
1938 (Circa)
Participated in the 1938 student exhibition.

Students included K.B. Hoey
1938 (Circa)
Participated in the 1938 student exhibition.

Students included Arnold Machin
15 July 1938
Participated in the 1938 student exhibition.

Students included H. M. Nabih
1938 (Circa)
Participated in the 1938 student exhibition.

Students included F. Roper
1938 (Presumed)
Participated in the 1938 student exhibition.

Students included B. N. Tagore
1938 (Circa)
Participated in the 1938 student exhibition.

Students included T. Wrigley
1938 (Circa)
Participated in the 1938 student exhibition.

Students included David McFall
1940 - 1941
McFall won a Royal Scholarship to the RCA but left when the college evacuated to the Lake District

Students included (Arthur) John Bridgeman
1945 (Circa) - July 1949
Bridgeman began his studies before the Second World War and resumed them c.1945. He graduated from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1949 'Distribution of Diplomas' list.

Teachers included William John Wills
1852 - 1857 (Circa)
Teacher of Modelling Ornament [see the Second Report of the Department of Science and Art, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1854-55, p. 127]

Teachers included Alphonse Legros
1875 - 1881
Listed as Master of Etching. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Teachers included George Washington Henry Jack
1900 - 1922 (Circa)
He held various teaching positions, at first he was an instructor in furniture decoration, and then latterly became a craft teacher in wood carving and gesso work.

Teachers included Richard Lunn
1901
Listed as a Pottery Instructor. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. No end date its given; however, it is likely that Lunn was still teaching at the school when the list was published in 1911.

Teachers included Dora May Billington
1917 (Circa)
Left the Royal College of Art as a student in the 1916-1917 session. Billington's subsequent profession is described as 'Instructor - Pottery Class - RCA': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 114.

Teachers included Frederick John Wilcoxson
1920 (Circa) - 1924 (Circa)
H. Cunliffe-Charlesworth suggests that Wilcoxon taught sculpture at the College between these dates, but may have worked at the College before 1920. See 'The Royal College of Art' PhD thesis,(1991), vol. 3, appendix C, p. 590. No source is given. Note that Wilcoxon is not listed in any of the College's prospectuses (as Cunliffe-Charlesworth also acknowledges).

Teachers included William Staite Murray
1925 - 1939
Listed as a teacher of pottery in the first avaliable school prospectus from 1926-1927. Last listed in the 1939-1940 prospectus. Note that from 1941 to 1945 the school produced an abridged prospectus that did not list the names of staff.

Teachers included Martin Travers
1926 (Presumed) - 1948
Listed as a teacher of stained glass in the first avaliable school prospectus from 1926-1927. Last listed in the 1947-1948 prospectus.

Teachers included K. M. Harris
1926 (Presumed) - 1948
Listed as a teacher of embroidery in the first avaliable school prospectus from 1926-1927. Last listed in the 1947-1948 prospectus.

Teachers included John Edward Crawford
1926 (Presumed) - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a 'technical instructor' of stained glass in the first avaliable school prospectus from 1926-1927. Still listed as a 'tutor' in the Department of Stained Glass in the 1951-1952 prospectus.

Teachers included W.E. Stocker
1926 (Presumed)
Listed as a 'technical instructor' of silversmithing in the first avaliable school prospectus from 1926-1927.

Teachers included F.A. Welch
1928 - 1940 (Presumed)
First listed as a technical instructor of silversmithing in the 1928-1929 prospectus. Last listed in the prospectus for 1939-1940. Note that from 1941 to 1945 the College used an abridged prospectus that did not list the names of staff.

Teachers included Allan G. King
1948 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the School of Ceramics in the College's 1948-1949 prospectus. King is still listed as a tutor in 1951-1952.

Teachers included L.A. Moss
1948 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the School of Silversmithing and Jewellery Design in the College's 1948-1949 prospectus. Moss is still listed as a tutor in 1951-1952.

Teachers included Lawrence S. Lee
1948 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the Department of Stained Glass in the College's prospectuses from 1948-1949. From 1949-1950 Lee is listed as Head of Department. Lee still held this position in 1951-1952.

Teachers included R.Y. Goodden
1948 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the School of Silversmithing and Jewellery Design from 1948-1949 onwards. Goodden is still listed as a tutor in 1951-1952.

Teachers included Leslie Durbin
1948 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the School of Silversmithing and Jewellery Design in the College's prospectuses from 1948-1949 onwards. Durbin is still listed as a tutor in 1951-1952.

Teachers included H.K. Wolfenden
1948 - 1951
Listed as a tutor in the School of Silversmithing and Jewellery Design in the College's prospectuses from 1948-1949 to 1950-1951.

Teachers included A.G. Richardson
1949 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the School of Ceramics in the College's prospectuses from 1949-1950 onwards. Richardson is still listed in 1951-1952.

Teachers included Thomas Bayliss Huxley- Jones
1949 (Probable) - 1959 (Probable)
See Geoff Hassell notes that Huxley-Jones joined the staff in 1949 and 'taught there on a part-time basis for nearly ten years'. However, the artist is not listed in the school's prosectuses from 1949 to 1951 (the final year sampled for this database). Hassell, 'Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts', (1995), p. 104.

Teachers included P. Popham
1950 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the School of Silversmithing and Jewellery from 1950-51. Popham still held this position in 1951-1952.

Teachers included Arnold Machin
1951
Listed as a tutor in the School of Ceramics in the College's prospectus from 1951-1952.

Teachers included Roy Austin
7 October 1965
See the article 'Modeller's Appointment at Royal College of Art', in 'Wedgwood Review', vol. 3, no. 8, Sept 1965, p. 11, in the Wedgwood Museum Digital Archives. Austin was to spend two days a fortnight teaching at the College.

Teachers of architecture included H.J. Harding
1926 (Presumed) - 1940 (Circa)
Listed as 'Instructor' in the 'School of Architecture' in the first avaliable school prospectus from 1926-1927, and in the annual prospectuses until 1939-1940. From 1941 to 1945 the school used an 'Abridged Prospectus' that did not list teaching staff. Harding is not listed as a teacher in the 1946-1947 prospectus.

Teachers of architecture included P.E. Marx
1929 - 1934
First listed in the College's 1929-1930 prosepectus and last listed in 1933-1934.

Teachers of architecture included Margaret S. Taylor
1930 - 1952 (Presumed)
First listed in the College's 1930-1931 prospectus. Taylor is listed in the 1951-1952 prospectus. Note that Taylor is listed as 'Miss Margaret S. Taylor' until 1948 when she is listed as as 'Miss M. S. Macdonald-Taylor'.

Teachers of architecture included D. Wylson
1947 - 1950
Listed in the College's prospectuses from 1947-1948 to 1950-1951.

Teachers of architecture included C.B. Greenberg
1951 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the School of Architecture in the College's 1951-1952 prospectus.

Teachers of architecture included John Wright
1951 (Circa) - 1952 (Circa)

Teachers of metal work included Harry (Henry) Wilson
1905
Listed as an instructor of metal work and enamelling. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. No end date is given, however, it is likely that Wilson was still working at the school when the list was published in 1911.

Teachers of metal work included C. Baker
1907 (Circa)
and enamelling

Teachers of metal work included Basil E. Allen
1926 (Presumed) - 1934
Listed as a teacher of metal work and enamelling in the first avaliable school prospectus from 1926-1927. Last listed in the 1933-1934 prospectus.

Teachers of metal work included R.J. Ruby
1936 - 1948
Listed as teacher of metal work and enamelling in the College's prospectuses from 1936-1937 to 1947-1948.

Teachers of metal work included David Pye
1949 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the School of Wood, Metals and Plastics from 1949-50 onwards. Pye still held this position in 1951-1952.

Teachers of metal work included P.P. Hancock
1949 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a Demonstrator/Technical Instructor in the School of Wood, Metals and Plastics from 1949-50 onwards. Hancock still held this position in 1951-1952.

Teachers of metal work included N.J. Slutzky
1950 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor in the School of Wood, Metals and Plastics from 1950-51. Slutzky still held this position in 1951-1952.

Teachers of modeling included Domenico Brucciani
1853 - 1861
Listed as Teacher of Moulding and Casting. See Table G, 'Names and Positions' in the 'Fourth Report of the Department of Science and Art'. p. 69 and the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Teachers of modeling included John Hancock
1854 - 1859
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Teachers of modeling included H. Hancock
1857 - 1859
Listed as Modelling Master. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Teachers of modeling included Felix Martin Miller
1859 - 1891
Listed as Modelling Master. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. In 1887-1888, Miller received £75 per annumn, to attend the school on five days and two evenings per week. See 'Staff List', (1887-1888).

Teachers of modeling included (Aimé) Jules Dalou
1877 - 1880
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Teachers of modeling included Edouard Lanteri
1880 - 1917 (Circa)
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. In 1901, Lanteri was appointed as the college's first Professor of Modelling and Sculpture (see separate relationship)

Teachers of modeling included W.J. Wills
1911
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Teachers of modeling included Henry Spencer Moore
1926 (Presumed) - 1931
Listed as an 'Assistant' in the 'School of Sculpture' in the first avaliable school prospectus from 1926-1927. Last listed as assistant in the 1930-1931 prospectus.

Teachers of modeling included Edward Charles N. Folkard
1948 - 1952
Listed as a tutor in the School of Sculpture in the College's prospectuses from 1948 onwards. Folkard is still listed as a tutor in 1951-1952.

Teachers of modeling included John Rattenbury Skeaping
1948 - 1953
First listed as a tutor in the School of Sculpture in the College's 1948-1949 prospectus. Skeaping is still listed as a tutor in 1951-1952. H. Cunliffe-Charlesworth notes that Skeaping worked in Mexico in 1949-1950 before returning to his post at the College in 1951. He was appointed Professor of Sculpture in 1953. See 'The Royal College of Art' PhD thesis,(1991), vol. 3, appendix C, p. 591. No source is given.

Teachers of modeling included Robin Guthrie
1949 - 1951
Listed as a tutor in the School of Sculpture in the College's prospectuses from 1949-1950 to 1950-1951.

Teachers of modeling included Heinz Henghes
1949 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a 'temporary tutor' in the School of Sculpture in the College's 1949-1950 and 1950-1951 prospectuses. Listed in the 1951-1952 prospectus as a a 'tutor'.

Teachers of modeling included R. Davies
1949 - 1952 (Presumed)
Listed as a 'Demonstrator' in the School of Sculpture in the College's 1949-1950 prospectus. In 1950-1951 and 1951-1952 Davies is listed as the 'Casting-shop Craftsman'; this position replaced the 'Demonstrator' and appears to have been the same post but with an different title.

Teachers of stone carving included Anselmo Galmuzzi
1901
Listed as an instructor of stone and marble carving. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 61. No end date is given, however, it is likely that Galmuzzi was still employed at the school when the report was written in 1911.

Teachers of stone carving included (Herbert) Barry Hart
1921 (Circa) - 1952
According to Henry Moore, Hart was teaching at the Royal College in 1921. He is listed as teacher of stone carving in the School of Sculpture, in the first available school prospectus from 1926-1927. Still listed as a tutor in the 'School of Sculpture' in the 1951-1952 prospectus.

Teachers of woodcarving included Alan Lydiat Durst
1926 (Presumed) - 1947
Listed as a teacher of woodcarving in the first avaliable school prospectus from 1926-1927. Last listed in the 1947-1948 prospectus.

Visitors included Edward John Poynter
1881 - 1895 (Presumed)
A letter from F. R. Sandford to the Department of Science and Art (2 September, 1881), records that Poynter was 'willing to continue, for the present, to give them the benefit of his advice and assistance as Visitor of the Art Training School; charged with the general supervision of the course of studies in the School, in which he will be associated with the new Director'. Poynter resigned as Visitor in 1895. See a letter dated 27 March, 1895, National Archives, London, ED 23/29.

Visitors included William Blake Richmond
1895
Listed as a Visitor to the school.

Visitors included William Godfrey Newton
1926 - 1927
Listed as a 'visitor' in the School's 1926-1927 prospectus.

Visitors included (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
1926 - 1929
Listed as a 'visitor' in the School's prospectuses from 1926-1927 to 1931-1932.

Visitors included Philip Connard
1928 - 1932
Listed as a visitor in the school's prospectueses from 1928-1929 to 1931-1932.

Visitors included Henry Martineau Fletcher
1929 - 1930
Henry M. Fletcher is listed as a visitor to the College in the 1929-1930 prospectus.

Visitors included William Reid Dick
1933 - 1939
Listed as a 'visitor' to the College's prospectuses from 1933-1934 to 1939-1940.

Visitors included Paul Nash
1936 - 1937
Listed as a 'visitor' in the College's 1936-1937 prospectus.

Visitors included Charles Thomas Wheeler
1947 - 1949
Listed as a 'visitor' to the College in the 1947-1948 and 1948-1949 prospectuses.

Visitors included James Bateman
1947 - 1948
Listed as a 'visitor' to the College in the 1947-1948 prospectus.

Visitors included Mitchel Maer
1948 - 1949
Listed as a 'visitor' to the School of Silversmithing and Jewellery Design in the College's 1948-1949 prospectus.

Visitors included Maxwell Fry
1948 - 1949
Listed as a 'visitor' to the School of Architecture in the College's 1948-1949 prospectus.

Visitors included W. B. Honey
1948 - 1949
Listed as a 'visitor' to the School of Ceramics in the College's 1948-1949 prospectus.

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1931
pp. 1-27.

Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1933-1934 Royal College of Art
1933
pp. 1-28.

Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1934-1935 Royal College of Art
1934
pp. 1-28.

Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1936-1937 Royal College of Art
1936
pp. 1-28.

Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1938-1939 Royal College of Art
1938
pp. 1-37.

Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1939-1940 Royal College of Art
1939
pp. 1-37.

Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1947-1948 Royal College of Art
1947
pp. 1-19.

Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, 1946-1947 Royal College of Art Prospectuses
1946
pp. 1-19.

Prospectus, Royal College of Art, 1948-1949 Royal College of Art
1948
pp. 1-19.

Report of Committee of Inquiry on National Art Training School [sic], 1889
16 July 1889
pp. 1-12.

Report on the National Art Training School, 1881
December 1881
pp. 1-7.

Report on the Royal College of Art, 1897
19 November 1897
pp. 1-17.

Royal College of Art Calendar and Prospectus, 1949-1950 Royal College of Art
1949
pp. 1-110.

Royal College of Art Calendar, 1951-1952 Royal College of Art
1951
pp. 1-103.

Royal College of Art Exhibition, 1938
1938
pp. 1-11.

Royal College of Art Prospectus, 1950-1951 Royal College of Art
1950
pp. 1-112.

Royal College of Art, Convocation, 12 July 1951
July 1951
pp. 1-5.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas in July 1940
12 July 1940
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas in July 1941
July 1941
p. 1.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas in July 1942
July 1942
p. 1.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas in July 1943
July 1943
p. 1.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas in July 1944
July 1944
p. 1.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas in July 1945
July 1945
p. 1.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 14 July 1932
14 July 1932
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 14 July 1939
14 July 1939
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 15 July 1927
15 July 1927
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 15 July 1938
15 July 1938
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 16 July 1937
16 July 1937
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 17 July 1931
17 July 1931
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 17 July 1936
17 July 1936
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 18 July 1930
18 July 1930
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 19 July 1935
19 July 1935
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 20 July 1923
1923
p. 1.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 20 July 1934
20 July 1934
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 21 July 1933
21 July 1933
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 8 July 1949
July 1949
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Thursday 13 July 1950
July 1950
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Thursday 15 July 1948
July 1948
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Thursday 25 July 1946
July 1946
pp. 1-2.

Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Wednesday 16 July 1947
July 1947
pp. 1-2.

The Illustrated London News, 11 October 1873, 1873 Committee of the Council on Education, Science and Art
11 October 1873
p. 341.

The Royal College of Art: Its Influences on Education, Art and Design 1900-1950, 1991 Royal College of Art
August 1991
pp. 586-592 and pp. 593-600.

The Royal College of Art: One Hundred Years and Fifty Years of Art and Design, 1987
1987

Citing this record

'Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)', 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_1222355292, accessed 05 Jun 2023]

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