Richard Burchett
Active: 1847 - 1875
Headmaster
Institutional and Business Connections
Principal of Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
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.
Sources
Government School of Design, Sommerset House, London. Prospectus, 1848
1 December 1848
p. 2.
Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1939-1940 Royal College of Art
1939
p. 36.
Citing this record
'Richard Burchett', 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_1245237439, accessed 28 Jun 2022]