One of the joys of writing this blog is being able to celebrate the acheivements of our students from time to time and that’s exactly what we’re going to do this week.
The Studio magazine was founded by Charles Holmes as an informative monthly periodical on contemporary fine and decorative art. First published in April 1893 (price: 6d), The Studio always had an extensive readership which included the UK, Europe and North America in particular. It initially started out by championing contemporary art and design movements. It [...]
The first outing of the LARA road show - in Islington with the British Museum.
William Oliphant Hutchison was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland on 2 July 1889. He was the fifth child in the family of four sons and two daughters of Henry William Hutchison, of Kinloch, a Kirkcaldy businessman and his wife, Sarah Hannah Key. William was educated at Kirkcaldy High School, Cargilfield. He later went on to Rugby [...]
Abraham Cooper was born in Red Lion Street, London on 8 September 1787. He was the son of a tobacconist, who later kept an inn, first at Holloway and then at Edmonton. At the age of 13, Abraham became an employee of Astley’s Amphitheatre, managed by his uncle. Astley’s was a great 19th-century attraction and [...]
Stanley Arthur Charles Anderson was born on 11 May 1884 at Bristol. He was apprenticed to his father, Alfred Ernest Anderson, for seven years, learning the craft of engraving heraldic symbols on metal tankards and cups. His six-shilling a week wage enabled him to attend evening classes at the Bristol Municipal School of Art, where [...]
John Arnesby Brown was born in Nottingham on 29 March 1866, where he lived in his early years at Pelham Close, The Park. Then later, he went to live in Cornwall and other addresses, before settling and working from The White House, Haddiscoe, Norwich, Norfolk, where he lived for 50 years. Arnesby Brown first studied at the Nottingham School of [...]
Henry William Pickersgill, a painter, was born in London on 3 December 1782. He was adopted early in life by a Mr Hall, a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields, who sent him to a school at Poplar, and at the age of 16, placed him in his own business. However, the war with Revolutionary France caused [...]
Frederick Lee Bridell was baptised on 5 December 1830. He was the third child and only son of John Bridell, carpenter, and Amelia (formerly Bartlett), living in Houndwell, Southampton. He received basic schooling and left at an early age to earn a living. From his friend Henry Rose, we learn that Bridell was drawing avidly [...]
John Guille Millais was born on 24 March 1865. He was the fourth son and seventh child of the painter John Everett Millais and Effie Gray, the former wife of John Ruskin. John grew up in London and Perthshire. As a boy, he formed a collection of birds shot around the Perthshire coast of Scotland. [...]
