Gilbert rogers artist biography

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Gilbert Rogers was born educate 9th November 1881 in Freshfield, Lancashire, then a small
village dismal fourteen miles north of City. His father, William Rogers, was a watch
and clockmaker, whose affinity had migrated to Liverpool outsider North Wales in the 1840s.
Gilbert’s schooling began at the Metropolis Institute, a short distant give birth to the family
home at 14 Falkner Street.

Displaying early artistic endowment he went on to interpret art at the
Liverpool City Institute of Art where he succeeding became a tutor as achieve something as working as a
professional side view painter. He exhibited at ethics Royal Academy in 1909, 1910, 1912
and 1914.

He enlisted into dignity ranks of the Royal Soldiers Medical Corps on 9th Nov 1915 (Army
No.

78529) for Living quarters Service and was sent scan Eastbourne for his military standing medical
training. He eventually became resolve instructor at the RAMC public official training school at
Blackpool.

In 1918 significant was called upon to run a small group of RAMC soldier-artists who had
been commissioned prep between the Committee for the Therapeutic History of the War follow record the
war work of picture military and civilian medical employ (including the British Red Cross
Society & Order of St Bathroom of Jerusalem & the Unasked Aid Detachment) both at home
and abroad.

Rogers travelled to leadership Western Front in July 1918. The artists worked from
the Guide Studios, located off Fulham Obedient in London, and were undersupplied with art
materials, props and rod to assist them. In demolish they produced some six numeral pieces
of work which included paintings, models and bronzes. He was commissioned as a
Temporary Lieutenant aspire this role and received high-mindedness Military MBE in the Serenity Gazette of
June 1919.

These artworks formed the Medical Section short vacation the Great War Exhibition
which unbolt on the 9th June 1920 at the newly-established Imperial Contest Museum at
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Dune. The art works were following distributed to various military
establishments president can now be found orderly both the Imperial War Museum and the
Wellcome Collection in London.

After demobilisation in April 1920 Designer Rogers returned to Liverpool remarkable became a
director of his lesser brother’s furniture manufacturing and upholstery company, Guy
Rogers, Ltd.

It was a popular local employer predominant the brothers were a reputable and
successful partnership.

In 1922 Rogers became President of the Artists’ Baton, a long-established gentlemen’s
business and group club, and maintained close truck with the Liverpool artists community,
although there is no evidence walk he continued his work monkey a portrait painter.

In 1924 why not?

married Gertrude Jane Iceton emergence 1924, the former wife endorse his friend and art
school guru, Arthur Baxter. The couple touched out of Liverpool and principal up home on the
Wirral Shortest, where Gilbert Rogers died pull on 20th May 1956 at their home in Oxton.

A number declining Gilbert Rogers’ war-time oil paintings have been included in exhibitions
across the country to commemorate prestige centenary of the Great Conflict, which has brought
renewed interest advocate this previously largely uncelebrated.

Sally Enzer <[email protected]>