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Nathaniel Rogers

Nathaniel Rogers (1787 - 1844) was active/lived in New York.  Nathaniel Rogers is known for Miniature portrait painting.

Nathaniel Rogers (August 1, 1787 – December 6, 1844) was an American painter from Long Island known as the preeminent miniature portrait painter in New York City.

Rogers was born in Bridgehampton, New York on August 1, 1788. He was the eldest son of a farmer, John T. Rogers, and Sarah Brown, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. Around the age of sixteen, he began to apprentice with a shipbuilder.

During his apprenticeship, he sustained a serious leg wound that rendered him unable to continue working. During his recovery, he taught himself to draw and paint and took up miniature painting. He eventually moved to New York City and studied with Uriah Brown and P. Howell.

He briefly worked as a school teacher, but upon working with fellow artist Joseph Wood, he went on his own, eventually becoming one of the most successful artists in miniature painting through the 1830s.

He painted miniatures of some of the most prominent people of his time, including Phili   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3082 characters.]  Artist bio

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Nathaniel Rogers
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review From Hand to Heart March 1996 Baldaia, Peter J Yes
11 Book References for Nathaniel Rogers
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)
213 No
1976 Riggs, Timothy A The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876 95 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
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