The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

THB WARRINGTON SCHOOL OF ART.

The council of the Warrington School of Art, in
hating their second I report, state that the institution
has ewer tally overcome the Weloathes which beset such an
uadertaking at its opening, and pr mises a future of sta-
bility acid permanent internees. The number of Madsen
daring the year has bert—males, 86; f melee, 39; total,
126. Of these, 6 ere bead teachers, and 26 pupil teachers,
la the public schools of the town awl neighbourho rd. This,
however, does not represent the satire work of the school, as
the master is very largely employed in giving lemons beyond
the walls of the central inatieutioo, so that 689 pupils alto-
gether Intro been instructed by the school during the year,
being a tint increase of 364 students during to. toad-
month. An analysis cf the works emended by the students
of the central school daring the year gives the following re-
' salts ;—Linear drawing by aid of instruments, 67; linear
pommy, 6; enecheni, al and am hiss drawing and
details of a:Annotate from copies, 2; linear psalm
tiro, 66 ; free hand outlines of rigid forme from exempts,
462; outlines from the round, 3; oarsmen% 14; shadings
from models and objects, 4; ditto,ornament, 3; drawing the
homes or animal figure boa copies in outline, 45; ditto,
shaded, 28; flowers, and objects of natural history
from fist examples, 3; ditto, shaded, 8 ; drawing the human
figure. or animal forma from the round, rr nature, 13;
ditto, in outline, from oasts, 2; flowers, foliage, landscape
detain, and objects of natural history from osters, In out
10; punting ormantent from the flat, or copies in
monochrome, is tempers. or 61, 2; painting flowers, or
loathe pee from copies, or from nature, 24 ; time sketches
of a group of object, in c nor, 1; is onnetehn ma from
oasts, 9; the human figure, or animals is colours, 6;
modellieg, 11; elementary and surface desires, 18. The
nista, merit of tteess we Al has bean d by eadaimen
*operand by the Board of Trade in the three public teshi-
bitioes of modem' works •Ireh have Men held I. L,DIIOII
since the date of the last retort of the school. Merida were
awarded is those imbibition' to thirty.foar works of the
Warriagton &nelson, s number grower than that awarded
to any @sterol of the same age, even I. large towns, and ex•
medleg is sous asses the washer matted to the old meta.
bibbed schools. Fria all the scheo's of art in the United
Kingdom, forty students were also se ',end by the dereartmeat
to r mane as a special prim a lee visit to the Paris Eeh hi.
don. Of them weld prima Warteetes tooa lour. a greeter
amber then ma granted to any ether pretended school.
Oee of the pupils also t ok mother epee al prim, • mosey
prise for applied dealer,. The mite of the firmer master
of the echoed, Mr. Colliseos, having mused the department
to violet him with a astenhip in its austral school la
London, the council has f mad • seeeriaor in M. C.
Thompson, • gentleman highly remaremoded by be
partsoot J. Wilma Patten, Beg , M.P., is the maddest of
the council for 1866. The vice-iseidents we the It
v.
W.
Quokott, 111.6. , William Ahmed, Req.. °divert Onnall,
BM.. M.P.. J. F. Marsh, Km , and B. Pieria:Met, Baq. Th
mewurer's amount for the past year shows an expenditure
of 1691. Is. lid., and moire to the am-mt of 266 f. 191.,
l leaving 'basses is heed el 861.17 a 7d.