Art Students’ Home also called the Home for Lady Art Students, 4-5 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury.

Louisa Twining helped female art students find accommodation both with her and in her Homes aware of their difficulty in securing appropriate lodgings before determining to open a students’ Home.

1879 Home founded by Angela Burdett-Coutts and Louisa Twining, supported also by Lady Eastlake and the Duchess of Teck, President. It was managed by a committee of women.  

Lady Coutts took the lease for the house in Brunswick Square and for that of the adjoining house when it became vacant, paying also for furnishings. 15 students were initially taken and overseen by lady-resident, Mrs Malone. It gradually expanded. It closed in 1908.

The home successfully provided homely accommodation for women who wished or needed to live independently away from families. Not all lodgers were art students.  Other lodging houses then established in the area.

Twining, Louisa; Recollections of Life and Work being the Autobiography of Louisa Twining; London 1893.