 One of her private students was John Leech, who drew caricatures for "Punch" magazine.Fanny McIan was the first superintendent of London's Female School of Design (later the Royal Female School of Art, which merged with the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1908), which opened with government funding in 1842.The school was launched to train respectable young women in need of employment to be porcelain painters and otherwise enter industrial careers, but McIan's curriculum included more fine arts subjects (oil painting, wood engraving), and attracted comfortable middle-class students as well.