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JOHN ROGERS (1829-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:ROGERS (1829-1904)  , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Salem, See also:Massachusetts, on the 3oth of See also:October 1829 . In 1848 he became an apprentice in a See also:machine See also:shop at See also:Manchester, New See also:Hampshire, and remained there for about ten years . During the latter See also:part of this See also:time he had done some modelling in See also:clay in his leisure See also:hours, and, having decided to become a sculptor, he spent eight months in See also:Rome and See also:Paris in 1858-59 . Becoming discouraged, he returned to See also:America and obtained employment as a draughtsman in the See also:office of the See also:city surveyor of See also:Chicago; but soon afterwards, owing to the favourable reception of his See also:group of small figures, " The Checker Players," he resumed sculptural See also:work, confining himself to these small figures, known as " See also:Rogers See also:Groups," which had an enormous popular success and were extensively reproduced . The See also:Civil See also:War in America gave him patriotic themes that increased his See also:vogue and prosperity, and in 1863 he became a See also:National Academician . His subjects were See also:familiar scenes and incidents of See also:home See also:life known to the masses, and the reproductions of his groups were sold in the most remote districts as well as in the larger cities . He executed several life-sized statues, including " See also:General See also:John F . See also:Reynolds " and a seated figure of See also:Lincoln, both in See also:Philadelphia; but it is by his statuettes that he is best remembered, and these were characterized by sentiment and human See also:interest rather than any genuine See also:artistic feeling . He died at New Haven, See also:Connecticut, on the 27th of See also:July 1904 .

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The John Rogers home was in New Canaan, Connecticut. It was here that he died in 1904, not New Haven.
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