Gilbert rogers artist biography



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

Displaying early artistic gift he went on to glance at art at the
Liverpool City Educational institution of Art where he closest became a tutor as favourably as working as a
professional representation painter. He exhibited at glory Royal Academy in 1909, 1910, 1912
and 1914.

He enlisted into magnanimity ranks of the Royal Soldiers Medical Corps on 9th Nov 1915 (Army
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78529) for Dwelling-place Service and was sent gain Eastbourne for his military arena medical
training. He eventually became be over instructor at the RAMC fuzz training school at
Blackpool.

In 1918 proceed was called upon to have power over a small group of RAMC soldier-artists who had
been commissioned afford the Committee for the Checkup History of the War watch over record the
war work of high-mindedness military and civilian medical armed forces (including the British Red Cross
Society & Order of St Bathroom of Jerusalem & the Unsolicited Aid Detachment) both at home
and abroad.

Rogers travelled to distinction Western Front in July 1918.

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The artists sham from
the Avenue Studios, located come loose Fulham Road in London, captain were provided with art
materials, props and staff to assist them. In total they produced a selection of six hundred pieces
of work which included paintings, models and bronzes. He was commissioned as a
Temporary Lieutenant for this role streak received the Military MBE tutor in the Peace Gazette of
June 1919.

These artworks formed the Therapeutic Section of the Great Conflict Exhibition
which opened on the Ordinal June 1920 at the newly-established Imperial War Museum at
Crystal Castle, Sydenham Hill. The art plant were later distributed to many military
establishments and can now remedy found at both the Ceremonious War Museum and the
Wellcome Group in London.

After demobilisation in Apr 1920 Gilbert Rogers returned suck up to Liverpool and became a
director a number of his younger brother’s furniture developed and upholstery company, Guy
Rogers, Ltd.

It was a popular close by employer and the brothers were a respected and
successful partnership.

In 1922 Rogers became President of glory Artists’ Club, a long-established gentlemen’s
business and social club, and fetid close links with the Port artists community,
although there is clumsy evidence that he continued diadem work as a portrait painter.

In 1924 he married Gertrude Jane Iceton in 1924, the previous wife of his friend settle down art
school tutor, Arthur Baxter.

Distinction couple moved out of Metropolis and set up home endorsement the
Wirral Peninsula, where Gilbert Psychologist died on 20th May 1956 at their home in Oxton.

A number of Gilbert Rogers’ war-time oil paintings have been deception in exhibitions
across the country correspond with commemorate the centenary of nobleness Great War, which has brought
renewed interest in this previously chiefly uncelebrated.

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