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unusual facts about Slade School of Fine Art



Clara Birnberg

Studying at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1910 and 1912 with Isaac Rosenberg and David Bomberg, she soon became the only female member of their 'Whitechapel Boys' circle of artists and poets, and was the only female exhibitor at the 1914 post-Impressionist exhibition "Twentieth Century Art: A Review of Modern Movements" at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in which this circle played a major part.

Edward Cullinan

His Father, a doctor who served as senior physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, had no great interest in the arts - though he was a brilliant amateur conjuror- but his mother (Slade-trained painter and daughter of the royal physician, Lord Horder) was an enthusiast for modern architecture and filled the nursery with Aalto furniture.

Fergal Stapleton

Stapleton has been an occasional lecturer on the MA Fine Art programmes at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Birmingham City University, and the Slade School of Fine Art.

Frederick Gore

Leaving Oxford, and arriving in London, Gore trained at the Slade under Henry Tonks and at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and Polunin from whom he learnt the flat-on-the-floor method of painting backdrops for the theatre: most useful later on when as an active member of the Balalaika Dance Group as dancer and organiser of events, he enhanced their productions with his professional expertise.

Isaac Rosenberg

He completed his apprenticeship in 1911, and managed to find the finances to attend the Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London (UCL).

Mark Handforth

Handforth grew up in London, England, and attended Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London.

Roger Hilton

He was born in 1911 in Northwood, London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London under Henry Tonks and also in Paris, where he developed links with painters on the Continent.

Rose Mead

She left there to study at the Westminster School of Art, London in 1892, under the tutorship of Frederick Brown just prior to his appointment as Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Russell Page

He was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey (1918 - 1924), and afterwards studied in London at the Slade School of Fine Art in London University (1924 - 1926), under Professor Henry Tonks.


see also

Alfred Gerrard

After being demobilized Gerrard studied at the Manchester School of Art in 1919 and at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1920 where Henry Tonks was his teacher and contemporaries included Samuel Rabinovitch.