John Rogers Herbert, 3 Canning Place, Victoria Road, Kensington [to an unidentified recipient]

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

Showing item 12 of 155 in this group

Reference code

JU/16/36

Title

John Rogers Herbert, 3 Canning Place, Victoria Road, Kensington [to an unidentified recipient]

Date

c. 1840

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Historical Background

"Rogers became master of the figure in the newly formed Government school of design at Somerset House, where his students included Walter Howell Deverell, who later became a Pre-Raphaelite painter." [DNB]

Content Description

Asking whether, from the works he had exhibited, his correspondent thought him capable of taking charge of a school of design.