Notes

1 Marion Richardson (1892-1946) art educationalist, trained at Birmingham School of Art and then taught at Dudley High School, developed ways of encouraging the visual imagination. She showed paintings by her pupils to Roger Fry at the 0mega Workshop in 1917 when an exhibition of children’s art was on view there. 1925-30 Teacher to post-graduate art students at the London Day Training College. Visited Bath School of Art several times in the late 1930’s, 1948 published Art and the Child. Her archive is at Bretton Hall, Yorkshire. (Information from Nan Youngman, a student of Richardson at the same time as Clifford Ellis, letter 34.8.88)

2 Ellis was interested in perspective all his life and advised the Tate Gallery on an exhibition there, 1980, of J.M.W. Turner’s perspective drawings.

3 St George's Hill House
Bathampton
Bath
Somerset
23.3.39

My dear Mr Clifford Ellis,
It has occured to me that when in due course of time I am gathered to my fathers, I shall be about the only witness of the work and teachings of the important series Degas, Manet, Monet. Whistler etc. I knew them all personally for years and worked under them. I wonder if I should not be useful by giving a morning once a week to lecturing from 10 to one o’clock.
I could not accept any fees from your school. I have several dealers who buy canvasses from me at anywhere between £100 and £150. My wife helps me by the sale of her paintings as well. To add to this, I like teaching. If you have a shorthand writer I would present your Institute with the copyright of my lectures and they could be entitled "The Bath Series" or some such name.

Sincerely, Yours
Walter Sickert

4 Nikolaus Pevsner Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1963.

5 Barbed wire was placed around Monks Park later in an attempt to prevent unauthorized entry by men, following complaints from parents about their daughters’ promiscuity. One artist teaching at Corsham in the first half of the 'Sixties described Corsham as being ‘full of randy girls.’ There were usually many more female than male students. At one time it was described, unfairly, as being a finishing school for girls. One father who suspected, quite rightly, that his daughter was having an affair with a teacher tried to get him sacked. Stories of close encounters between staff and students are legion. Some teachers married students.

6 Clifford Ellis ‘Preparing Art Education’ in Education in Art: A Symposium Ed. Ziegfeld, UNESCO 1953

7 Bath Academy of Art amalgamated with the Bath College of Higher Education in 1983 and is now part of the faculty of Art and Music. It finally vacated Corsham Court in 1986. The art and design courses now occupy a 1960's building at Sion Hill and the rest of the art department occupies part of’ a late Georgian terrace in Somerset Place, Bath, the remainder of the terrace being student accommodation On graduation students receive a BA degree. Students training to become art teachers study mostly in the Faculty of Education, also part of the Bath College of Higher Education, situated at Newton Park, Bath, but spend a part of their time at Sion Hill and Somerset Place.