The Lincoln College of Art was an educational institution devoted to the arts, based in the English city of Lincoln with its origins in the mid-nineteenth century. The institution changed shape and name numerous times over its history before being absorbed into the University of Lincoln. Midway through the nineteenth century, the then British Government's Department of Science and Art, based in South Kensington, began establishing a network of art schools as a means of promoting and aiding manufacturing.[1] One of the oldest institutions of its kind in Britain,[2] it became one of Britain's leading art schools, and was one of the first to introduce the teaching of the techniques derived from the French School of Impressionism. Many of its students went on to exhibit at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy. Amongst its alumni are members of the Newlyn School and two Royal Academicians. It also popularised the art and crafts exhibitions in Lincolnshire that became important annual events in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[3]
- ^ Frank Bramley, RA 1857–1915, (Usher Gallery/Lincolnshire County Council, Lincoln, 1999), p. 12
- ^ Hooten, C. W.. 'Education in Lincoln', pp. 86-96, in Lincoln, Nineteen Hundred & Thirty Six, (The Greg Publishing Company Limited, London, 1936), p. 95
- ^ Hill, Sir Francis.. Victorian Lincoln, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974), p. 303