ABSTRACT
The Society for Promoting Practical Design was established at Savile House by William Ewart MP as chairman, with the support of Benjamin Robert Haydon, to rival the Government School of Design. Set up in 1838, the Society offered lectures and classes in design, colour, anatomy, and drawing. The attendance consisted of highly respectable ladies, gentlemen, artists, youths and mechanics. In this chapter, the author briefly points out the outline of the objects of the society, to spread a knowledge of the arts among the people, and to show the various modes of applying them to the different branches of trade and manufacturers. It alludes to the advantages which a knowledge of the arts, systematically and scientifically acquired, confer upon the manufactures of the country.
