Art School

In 1711 the Academy of Painting in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, opened the first school in Britain for art and drawing from life under a leading painter of the time, Kneller.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in the city of Philadelphia. It was started in 1805 and is the oldest art museum and art school in the United States.

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts c1895

In 1866, a group of 35 artists founded the Chicago Academy of Design in a studio on Dearborn Street. The group wanted to run a free school with its own art gallery. The organization was modeled after European art academies, such as the Royal Academy. Classes started in 1868 with students paying the school US$10 per month. 

Rudyard Kipling's father, John Kipling, was an artist and architect who on his marriage went to Bombay to take up a post of principal of a new Art school and was to have a great influence on Indian modern Art.

English critic and social theorist John Ruskin (1819-1900) was appointed Slade Professor at Oxford in 1870, the first professor of art in England.

Although Pablo Picasso attended art schools throughout his childhood, often those where his father taught, he never finished his college level course of study at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, leaving after less than a year.

The Bauhaus was a design school that operated from 1919 to 1933 in Germany. Bauhaus promoted modernism and is widely regarded as the most influential art school of the 20th century.