The Art Exhibition: Wherever a School of Art is established there an annual exhibition of the works of the pupils becomes one of the events of the year, of greater or less importance in proportion to the size of the place and show the students are able to make. The Newton Abbot School of Art has been opened only one year, under the efficient master ship of Mr. Holmes of Torquay and it was hardly reasonable to expect that the young artists, just being initiated into the first secrets of drawing should be able to present to the public a very attractive room full of specimens. Other circumstances have, however, conspired to render the earliest show of School of Art drawings one of no small significance to the general public … (description of establishment of the arts in the neighbourhood and list of items lent for display by members of the public – includes) … John Bull (sic) Pinsent, Delf, Dresden, and Oriental China and alabaster vases …
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901