Founded by William Lancaster, Baron Pollock and Sir Arthur Jelf.  For the first 11 years this was based in rooms over the parish offices in Putney High Street.  Lancaster then funded the freehold site and the purpose-built art school.  Architect: Thomas William Willis, opened 2 October 1895.  1924 the school was taken over by the LCC, and has subsequently been run by the ILEA in the 1960`s and then by Wandsworth Council.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Putney School of Art
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Sir William Lancaster
Sir William Lancaster, 1841 - 1929, co-founder of the Putney School of Art, M...
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Gilbert and George
Artists.  George Passmore was born 8 January 1942 in Plymouth.  Gilbert Proesch was born 17 September 1943 in Italy.  They first met on 25 September 1967 while studying sculpture at Saint Martin's ...
1 memorial
Ronald Searle
Artist and cartoonist. Born Cambridge and studied art. In WW2 at the start of 1942 he was in the Royal Engineers in Singapore which fell to the Japanese and he was taken prisoner and spent the rest...
1 memorial
Otto Schade
Artist and architect. Â Born Chile. Â We can'f find a picture of him so we are using one of his extraordinary art works instead.
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