Chittenden
Active: 1851 - 1855
Headmaster of art school
Institutional and Business Connections
Principal of School of Art, Wolverhampton
1851 - 1854 (Presumed)
Jones notes that Chittenden was appointed 'art master' at the end of the year 1851. See Jones, 'Historical Sketch', (1897), p. 147.
Principal of Government School of Practical Art, Wolverhampton
1854 - 1858 (Presumed)
Jones notes that Chittenden 'retired in a short time from the head mastership of the school': see Jones, 'Historical Sketch', (1897), p. 156. The School's Second Annual Report (29 July, 1856) notes that Chittenden had left the School to become drawing-master of the Free Grammer School: see 'Minute Book' (c. 1851-1862), p. 93.
A letter from C. B. Mander (Honorary Secretary of the School) to Henry Cole records that Chittenden had resigned from the post of Headmaster and that W. J. Muckley had applied for this job; the letter is dated the 31 May, 1858.
Sources
Historical Sketch of the Art and Literary Institutions of Wolverhampton, from the year 1794 to 1897, 1897
1897
p. 147.
Letter from C. B. Mander to Henry Cole, 31 May, 1858
31 May 1858
pp. 1-3.
Citing this record
'Chittenden', 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/person.php?id=msib4_1242310183, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
