Mark Rogers Junior
Born 13 January 1848
Died 14 December 1933
Active: 1861 - 1933
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, wood carver
Born in Hoxton/Shoreditch, Middlesex, and baptised at St. John the Baptist, Hoxton on 6 February 1848. He was the son of Mark Rogers Snr, wood carver, (presumed born 1820, died in 1910) and brother of Frederick Rogers (born c.1862) sculptor and wood carver. Mark was initially trained by his father, and by the 1870s was made foreman wood carver at Trollope and Son, a leading London firm of furniture manufacturers and decorators.
Rogers attended the life class at Lambeth School of Art for ten years c.1871-81, and engaged in further studies at this college between 1878 and 1881. (Miller (below) says he also studied for one year at the National Art Training School in South Kensington, but sources relating to the college do not support this.) Rogers then set up in business on his own account. From 1880 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy of Arts, also showing work at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, the Spring Exhibitions in Leeds, and at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Rogers became a teacher of modelling, first at Clapham School of Art in Vernon Road (around 1900) and then at Battersea Polytechnic (about 1911) where he also taught carving.
The reference to Roger's teaching at Clapham is from the timetable of classes in 'Art Industries: Sculptors and Modellers', 'The London Technical Education Gazette', September-October, p.283. Some of the details about his career are from Fred Miller, 'The Training of a Craftsman', p. 138 and p. 145.
Wealth at death: £1,660 15s. 9d.
Probate date: 29 January 1934
Works
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Studio assistant in creation of Model in plaster and wood of chimney piece at Ashridge for Earl Brownlow
listed as sculptor for work in 1889 ACES exhibition catalogue
The Apothecary - 'Romeo and Juliet'
Model for Door Panel of a Cabinet
Locations
Address 111 Tachbrook Street London | View on map
Address 146 Tachbrook Street London | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Address Albion Villa, South Lambeth Road Lambeth London | View on map
1884 - 1891
Address 20 Grandison Road Clapham Common London SW | View on map
1889 (Presumed)
Address 74 Grandison Road Clapham Common London SW | View on map
1891 (Circa) - 1933
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: First Exhibition, 1888
Multiple works
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Second Exhibition, 1889
Multiple works
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Sixth Exhibition, 1899
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1892
'Sir David Lindesay, 'Marmion''
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1894
'Media and Aeson'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1895
'Reading, Writing and Arithmetic'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Arts & Crafts Exhibition, 1904
'L'Allegro'
Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1880 - 1915
Exhibited 19 times, usually one work per year, 25 works in all. His preferred media were wood and terracotta.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the fifteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1885
1885
The Centurion (cat. no. 1460, terracotta, £21).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1892
1892
Medea and Aeson (cat. no. 1355, terracotta models of medallions for an oak cabinet, £6 6s.); Silvia (cat. no. 1381, terracotta bust, £50).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1895
1895
Model for Bronze Door Panel of a Cabinet (cat. no. 1283, £7 7s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1895
1895
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (cat. no. 1315, model of a slaver to be made in silvered bronze, £35).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1896
1896
'Talium est enim reguum exlorum' - Matthew xvi, 14 (cat. no. 1207, coloured plaster, £7 7s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
Edward VI (Model Bust for King Edward's School, Bury St Edmunds, cat. no. 1442, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
Upper front of a cabinet (cat. no. 1553, oak, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
L'Allegro (cat. no. 1452, tinted plaster relief, £10).
Speaker at Monumental Wood Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1900
Speaker at Flaxman (Art Workers Guild), 1904
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1933 (Circa)
Honorary member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1929 - 1933 (Circa)
Thought to have died in 1933 [List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors].
Member of Art Workers Guild
1892 - 1929
Resigned in 1929.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1905 - 1929 (Circa)
Amongst the second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].
Rogers resigned in 1929, and was made an Honorary Retired Member.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with George Thomas Robinson
Daughter/son/child of Mark Rogers Senior
Sister/sibling of Frederick Rogers
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Wood Carver' also his father Mark (born c.1821, slightly deaf) and his brother Frederick (born c.1862) both 'Wood Carver'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Sculptor in Wood & Marble' worker
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor, Art School Teacher' working on own account at home
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor, principally in wood and teacher of modelling and carving' for London County Council and Battersea Polytechnic also working 'on own account at home'
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1896, p.24.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1900, p.5.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1904; p.5.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1929, p.11.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
All lists of members' addresses 1913-1928.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the First Exhibition.
1888
pp.141-142.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
pp.192-3, p.197, p.250.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Sixth Exhibition.
1899
p.76.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth, 1895 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1895
pp. 47-50.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth, 1895 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1895
pp. 47-50.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth, 1896 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1896
pp. 45-48.
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the fifteenth, 1885 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1885
pp. 85-87.
Catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 1904
1904
Cat. No. 1182, pp. 71, 133
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1892
1892
Cat. Nos. 510, 511, pp. 50, 104
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1894
1894
Cat. Nos. 592, 595, pp. 53, 110
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1895
1895
Cat. No. 626, pp. 53, 114
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 103 folio 9 page 12
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 438; Folio 38; Page 25; GSU roll: 6095548
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 459 folio 123 page 44
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN2238 RG78PN76 RD26 SD3 ED18 SN116
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Mark Rogers
Birth Date: abt 1847
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1933
Age at Death: 86
Registration district: Battersea
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1d
Page: 427
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Registered at Shoreditch, London; Vol. 2; p. 452
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
2010
Name: Mark Rogers
Record Type: Baptism
Estimated Birth Date: abt 1848
Baptism Date: 6 Feb 1848
Father's name: Mark Rogers
Mother's name: Martha Maria Rogers
Parish or Poor Law Union: Hoxton St John
Borough: Hackney
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 March 1905.
Citing this record
'Mark Rogers Junior', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208257662, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
