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Heatherley's
School of Fine Art
Chelsea. Established 1845 |
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Founded
in 1845, Heatherley's is the oldest independent
art school in London and is among the few art colleges
in Britain that focus purely on portraiture, figurative
painting and sculpture. |
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Burne
Jones, Rossetti, Millais, Lord Leighton, Russell
Flint, Michael Ayrton and Sickert are numbered amongst
its former students as was the first Principal of
the Slade School of Art, Sir Edmund Poynter and
an early Principal of the Royal College of Art,
Walter Crane.
Heatherleys was the first school to admit
women on equal terms with men. |
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