Manchester School of Art
Other names: Manchester Metropolitan University
Active: 1854 -
Function: Art school
Associated People
Apprenticed Thomas Gerard Murphy
1927
Murphy completed his studies by this date.
Assistant teachers included John Cassidy
1887 (Circa)
Directed by Walter Crane
1894
Members of committee included John Cassidy
p. 1
Members of committee included Edgar Wood
Panel members included Harry Malcolm Miller
1918 (Circa) - 1938 (Circa)
Member of an advisory board of Manchester art professionals
Principals included Richard Henry Albert Willis
Head Master of Manchester School of Art 1883-1892 according to Catalogue for 1907 Autumn Exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery, p. 50
Principals included Robert Arthur Dawson
1919 - 1939
Students included Adele R. B. Muller
Students included David A. Murray
Won a bronze medal in 1868 for a modelled design for a frieze, and the Goadsby Prize in 1871 for a set of designs for decorative purposes
Students included Thomas Clough
Won the Barge Prize for the best original design, full-size, for a panel in carved work, similar in style to the plaster casts of panels and ornamental pedestals in the possession of the School, which will be pointed out by the Head Master on enquiry
Students included William H. Hey
Students included Mary C. Cox
Students included Jennie Delahunt
Students included C. F. Weston
Students included Jessie Dawe
Students included Clara F. Dean
Students included Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Students included Eliza Hutchins
Students included Jennie H. Wood
Students included Ethel Barker
Students included Emma L. Bradbury
Students included J. H. Farran
Students included F. Teggin
Students included Bertha Glazier
Students included J. H. Gibbons
Students included Amy Dimelow
Students included Jessie Russell
Students included R. Wallwork
Students included Mabel P. Sefton
Students included A. Brooke
Students included Elizabeth Donaldson
Students included Jessie A. Boon
Students included H. Hendrie
Students included W. H. Helm
Students included Stanley Mace Foster
Students included R. Standring
Students included G.E. Jones
Students included J. M. Yorke
Students included R. C. Essenhigh
Students included David Evans
Students included Winifred L. Hinmers
Students included Pauline Aitken
Students included Lily T. Maybury
Students included H. Smith
Students included F. G. Swinburn
Students included A. P. Tankard
Students included Irene Cooper
Students included Margaret H. Harrison
Students included Adeline C. Hammond
Students included John Cassidy
1883 (Circa) - 1887 (Circa)
Students included William D. Handforth
1885 (Circa) - 1887 (Circa)
Students included O. Garniss
1885 (Circa)
Students included Margaret Irwin
1885 (Circa) - 1887 (Circa)
Students included Ethel Ellerby
1887 (Circa)
Students included Gertrude Lake
1887 (Circa)
Students included Saranna Schofield
1887 (Circa)
Students included Ethel Atcherley
1891 (Circa)
Students included Chisholm Cole
1891 (Circa)
Students included Ernest Fitton
1891 (Circa) - 1892 (Circa)
Students included Clara C. Harrison
1891 (Circa) - 1892 (Circa)
Students included Constance Jurgensen
1891 (Circa)
Students included John Linehan
1891 (Circa)
Students included Sydney Lee
1891 (Circa)
Students included Lehmann J. Oppenheimer
1891 (Circa)
Students included Edith Newton
1891 (Circa)
Students included Annie A. Shepherd
1891 (Circa)
Students included Gertrude Eliza Wright
1892 (Circa)
Students included Barnett
1895 (Circa)
Students included Nellie Mounsey
1897 (Circa) - 1898 (Circa)
Students included Harry Malcolm Miller
1897 (Circa) - 1898 (Circa)
Students included Wilhelmina L. Neuwirth
1897 (Circa) - 1898 (Circa)
Students included Frank Lightowler
1902 (Circa) - 1903 (Circa)
Students included Joseph Lawton
1902 (Circa) - 1903 (Circa)
Students included Charles F. Hill
1902 (Circa) - 1903 (Circa)
Students included Margaret Koetter
1903 (Circa)
Students included Leonard Bilton Millson
1903 (Circa)
Students included Rose Bauerkeller
1908 (Circa) - 1912 (Circa)
Students included James Ashton Floyd
1908 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)
Students included Alice Lindley-Millican
1908 (Circa) - 1912 (Circa)
Students included Walter Marsden
1908 (Circa)
Students included Maria P. Law
1908 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)
Students included John Price
1908 (Circa) - 1912 (Circa)
Students included Edward J. Smart
1908 (Circa) - 1914 (Circa)
Students included William E. Roe
1908 (Circa) - 1912 (Circa)
Students included Marie Josephine Lenegan
1911 (Circa) - 1914 (Circa)
Students included Vera F. Cremer
1912 (Circa)
Students included Gwilym E. Jones
1912 (Circa) - 1914 (Circa)
Students included Eleanor Slinn
1912 (Circa)
Students included Lydia M. Royle
1912 (Circa)
Students included Frances Shorrocks
1912 (Circa)
Students included Kathleen M. Lee
1913 (Circa) - 1914 (Circa)
Students included G. Owen
1913 (Circa) - 1914 (Circa)
Students included Ida Percy
1913 (Circa) - 1914 (Circa)
Students included Annie R. Kitchen
1914
Students included D.W. Sharp
1914 (Circa)
Students included Doris Kathleen Flinn
1914 (Circa)
Teachers included Hugh Hutton Stannus
1900 - 1902
Director of architectural studies,
Teachers of metal work included F. Newland Smith
1918 (Circa) - 1939 (Circa)
Teachers of modeling included Thomas Mewburn Crook
1896 (Presumed) - 1905 (Presumed)
Crook also lectured in anatomy (based on information from Crook's family).
Teachers of sculpture included John Millard
1918 (Circa) - 1936 (Circa)
Head of the School of Modelling and Sculpture
Teachers of sculpture included William Easson Tocher
1946 (Circa) - 1966 (Circa)
Tocher first appears in the Calendars of the Manchester Municipal School of Art for academic year 1946-1947 with the title of Head of the Department of Modelling and Sculpture. His last entry appears in academic year 1965-1966. (Information from Adrian Hicken.)
Teachers of stone carving included John Millard
1918 (Presumed) - 1936 (Presumed)
Teachers of woodcarving included James Lenegan
1912 (Circa)
Sources
A School of Design for Belfast 1849-1960, 2009
2009
p. 57
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1894, p.22.
Calendar of the Municipal School of Art, Session 1935-36
1935
Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1891
1891
pp. 123, 125, 126, 127
Catalogue of the Ninetieth Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1949
1949
p. 30
Catalogue of the Ninety First Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1950
1950
p. 29
Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1895
1895
pp. 252, 256
Catalogue of the Twenty-Fifth Autumn Exhibition, 1907
1907
p. 50
Catalogue of the Twenty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, 1906
1906
p. 58
The Annual Report of the Manchester School of Art, December 30, 1885
1886
The Annual Report of the Manchester School of Art, January 21st, 1887
1887
The Annual Report of the Manchester School of Art, January 6th, 1885
1885
Citing this record
'Manchester School of Art', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib5_1217258399, accessed 31 Mar 2023]
