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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.
Heatherley's was the first school to admit
women on equal terms with men.
In 1845, a group of students of the Government School of Design
in Somerset House, unable to tolerate any longer the academic
restrictions imposed on them, began to work as a separate class
in Dickenson's Drawing Gallery, 18 Maddox Street. In 1848 Dickenson's
became Leigh's and moved to Newman Street with James Matthews
Leigh as Principal.
When he retired, his pupil and assistant Thomas
J. Heatherley took over the school and ran it for nearly thirty
years without a break.
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Above: Thomas
Heatherley
Left: Glanville
Fell and student in
the Antiques Room
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