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Rogers, William Harry (1850-1870)

Rogers, William Harry

London; carver, designer (fl.1850-70)

All three members of the Rogers family worked for individual patrons and for the businesses of George Trollope, J. M. Levien and others. William Harry Rogers was son of William Gibbs Rogers (1792-1857) and brother of George Alfred Rogers.

It is believed that William Harry designed the boxwood Renaissance style cradle carved by his father for Queen Victoria and recorded in the Lord Chamberlain’s accounts of 1850, and lent to the Great Exhibition of 1851. The cradle and a variety of other carvings exhibited by William Gibbs and his sons at the Great Exhibition are illus. Meyer (2006), pp. 27 & 52.

Rogers (which one is unclear) also exhibited a selection of carved wood brackets and other objects at the London International Exhibition, 1862 (illus. Meyer (2006), p. 134).  Also the designer of a boxwood bracket, c.1865, formerly in the Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read collection and now at the V&A.

Image
Wooden bracket
Copyright (Attribution/Credit)
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Carved boxwood bracket [W.28-1972], 1853.© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78992/bracket-rogers-william-harry/

Sources: Meyer, Great Exhibitions. London, New York, Paris, Philadelphia. 1851-1900 (2006); Wallis, ‘A Hand-List of the Handley-Read Collection’, The Decorative Arts Society 1850 to the Present (2016).