[1][2] The school worked with the Science and Art Department in South Kensington and offered lessons including architectural and life drawing.
The school began at a building in Wells Street and had 59 pupils in May 1862, reaching a peak for the site of 125 in February 1863.
The letters suggested this was due to a change in government rules, which allowed elementary schools to teach art classes.
[7] The number of students continued to decline into the late 1880s and the school was absorbed into the larger Regent Street Polytechnic in around 1889.
[8][ii] Within a year, the number of students had risen to 600, making it the largest art school in London.