ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.
VISITOR’S REPORT.
Drawing SCHOOL.

THE VISITOR for the time being is MASTER of the SCHOOL. His duty is to
set the Models, to examine and correct the performances of the Students, to give
them Advice and Instruction, and to maintain due Order and Discipline.

NAME OF VISITOR Sir Luke Fildes R.A.
PERIOD OF DUTY From Jan. 3rd. To Jan. 28th.1910.

SUGGESTIONS AND REMARKS.
Instruction
Year by year I see a marked
deterioration in the quality of the work done in
this School _ The level of the capacity of the Students
is lower & lower each year. One wonders how
some of them gained admission at all & why _
Even among those more justifiably admitted
there is a lamentable want of proper training:
Scarcely any have an idea how to begin to
draw or the least technical skill in the use of
their materials or knowledge of proportion
They waste their time doing careless messy
work & then trying to clean it up_ Very few
draw at all_ With a very few excepting
none of the students are qualified to draw
from the living model. They require training
& discipline in drawing correctly from simple
inanimate objects. first in accurate outline &