Richmond School of Art

In 1873 Richmond School of Art and College of Music, at Halford House in Richmond, Surrey. In 1910 Frank Percival Brown was appointed headmaster but resigned in 1916 to aid the war effort by working as a machine gun assembler at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. In 1973 the School of Art was enlarging its adult facilities to accommodate the overflow of students from Ealing School of Art. Early in the millennium Richmond School of Art [no-glossary] was absorbed into the newly formed New School of Art which aimed to attract students and practising artists from a catchment area as far away as Brighton, Lewes and London.

Staff and alumni past and present include Phyllis Ginger, Clifford Hall, Jack Fairhurst and Stanley Badmin, John Piper and Robert Hurdle. Richmond in Surrey should not be confused with Richmond in North Yorkshire.