The Westminster School of Art was an

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, London.

History

The Westminster School of Art was located at 18

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, Deans Yard, Westminster, and was part of the old Royal Architectural Museum. H. M. Bateman described it in 1903 as:

"... arranged on four floors with galleries running round a big square courtyard, the whole being covered over with a big glass roof. Off the galleries were the various rooms which made up the school, the galleries themselves being filled with specimens of architecture which gave the whole place the air of a museum, which of course it was."

In 1904 the art school moved and merged with the Westminster Technical Institute, in a two-story building on Westminster's

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, established by the philanthropy of

Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906), born Angela Georgina Burdett, was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daught ...

in 1893.

People associated with the School

Academics and teachers

Adrian Allinson Adrian Allinson (9 January 1890 – 20 February 1959) was a British painter, potter and engraver known for his landscapes of Southern Europe and North Africa, and for a series of notable posters he made for London Transport. Life and caree ...

, art teacher (c. 1947) *

Walter Bayes Walter John Bayes (31 May 1869 – 21 January 1956) was an English painter and illustrator who was a founder member of both the Camden Town Group and the London Group and also a renowned art teacher and critic. Biography Early life Bayes was b ...

* Professor Frederick Brown, headmaster (1877–1892) * Mark Gertler * Harold Gilman *

Nina Hamnett Nina Hamnett (14 February 1890 – 16 December 1956) was a Welsh artist and writer, and an expert on sailors' chanteys, who became known as the Queen of Bohemia. Early life Hamnett was born in Shirley House, Picton Road in the small c ...

, art teacher (1917–1918) * Richard Arthur Ledward *

Bernard Meninsky Bernard Meninsky (25 July 1891–12 February 1950) was a painter of figures and landscapes in oils, watercolour and gouache, a draughtsman and a teacher.. Biography Early life and education Meninsky was born in Konotop, Ukraine, where his fathe ...

Mervyn Peake Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the '' Gormenghast'' books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived ...

* Eric Schilsky *

Walter Sickert Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on di ...

* Hilary Stratton, Sculpture (1931–39) * Christopher J. Yorath, lecturing engineer (1908–09)

Alumni

* Clare Atwood * Mary Audsley * J M Balliol Salmon * Harry Barr * H. M. Bateman *

Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the ...

* Jean Bellette * Robert Polhill Bevan *

David Bomberg David Garshen Bomberg (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys. Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry ...

Wendela Boreel Wendela Boreel (1895–1985) was a British artist noted for her gouache painting method and intaglio works. She was a student of Walter Sickert. Training and early career The daughter of a Dutch diplomat, Jonkheer Boreel, and an American mo ...

* Denise Broadley * Theo Brown * Irene Mary Browne * Stella Bowen *

Alfred Brumwell Thomas Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas (24 February 1868 – 22 January 1948) was an English architect who trained at Westminster School of Art and became an exponent of the Baroque Revival, a style of architecture prevalent for public buildings in the earl ...

* Henry Charles Brewer *

Emily Carr Emily Carr (or M. Emily Carr as she sometimes signed her work) (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer who was inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the Canadian art, painters in ...

* Frances Crawshaw *

John Craxton John Leith Craxton RA, (3 October 1922 – 17 November 2009) was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian". Biography Career John was the son of musician Harold ...

* Ruth Doggett * Florence Engelbach *

Nora England Nora Clearman England (November 8, 1946 – January 26, 2022) was an American linguist, Mayanist, and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focused on the grammar of Mayan languages and contemporar ...

* Jeffery Farnol, author * Daphne Fedarb * Elizabeth Bertha Fraser * Diana Gardner * James Gardner, designer (c. 1923) * Margaret Geddes *

Eric Gill Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' describes Gill as ″the greatest artist-cra ...

, stonemasonry student (c. 1901) *

Sylvia Gosse Laura Sylvia Gosse (14 February 1881 – 6 June 1968) was an English painter and printmaker. She also ran an art school with the painter Walter Sickert. Education and teaching Laura Sylvia Gosse, known as Sylvia, was the youngest of three chil ...

Duncan Grant Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major i ...

* Barbara Greg * Richard Hamilton * Weaver Hawkins * Paul Haefliger * Evie Hone * Mainie Jellett * David Jones * John Luke *

Dugald Sutherland MacColl Dugald Sutherland MacColl (10 March 1859 – 21 December 1948) was a Scottish watercolour painter, art critic, lecturer and writer. He was keeper of the Tate Gallery for five years. Life MacColl was born in Glasgow and educated at the Uni ...

* Rose Mead *

John Mennie John George Mennie, A.R.M.S. D.A.(ABDN). ARMS., (26 November 1911 – 24 August 1982) was a Scottish artist who came to public attention in 2011 for his many contemporaneous drawings of his life as a prisoner of war during the Japanese occupatio ...

* Elizabeth Polunin *

Norman Mills Price Norman Mills Price (1877–1951) was a Canadian American illustrator known for his work in historical subjects.Reed, p.109 Born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, he studied at the Ontario School of Art, then in London at the Westminster School of Art a ...

* Alfred William Rich * Michael Sherard, fashion designer * Marjorie Sherlock *

Sam Smith Samuel Frederick Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. After rising to prominence in October 2012 by featuring on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart, they ...

, toy-maker * Barbara Austin Taylor * Robert Tollast * Christopher Tunnard, landscape architect (1932) * Dame Ethel Walker * John Millar Watt * Clifford Webb * Victor Winding

References

* Anderson, Anthony, ''The Man who was H. M. Bateman'', Webb & Bower (Exeter, England, 1982)
The Art of War — Artists

Fine Art — Richard Hamilton

* ttp://www.lissfineart.com/portfolios/webb.htm Liss Fine Art Portfolio — Clifford Webb

References

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