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.