Nathaniel Rogers

Nathaniel Rogers (August 1, 1787 – December 6, 1844)

Early life 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. 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.

In 1817, he exhibited at the American Academy of the Fine Arts for the first time, subsequently showing each year until 1824. After the National Academy was formed, he showed his painting there until around 1830.

Collections His paintings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, New-York Historical Society, Yale University, Worcester Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, and several others including The Suffolk County Historical Society.

Personal life In 1817, Rogers was married to Caroline Matilda Denison (d. 1857), the daughter of Captain Samuel Denison and Phoebe (née Topping) Denison.

Edmund Rogers, who married Mary Zephia Topping. Helen Courtney Rogers, who married Henry Manning, an owner of a steam mill in Madison, Wisconsin. James Rogers (1829–1901), a Williams College graduate who became a prominent physician.

Rogers, who contracted tuberculosis in 1825, died in Bridgehampton, New York on December 6, 1844. He left a substantial estate and a large mansion, known as Hampton House, in Bridgehamton. His wife later died in 1857 while visiting their daughter in Wisconsin.

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