Claude Maurice Rogers OBE (27 January 1907 – 18 February 1979) was a British painter of portraits and landscapes, an influential art teacher, a founding member of the Euston Road School and at one time the President of the London Group of British artists.
[5] He taught at their original premises in Fitzroy Street and, from February 1938, at the Euston Road location that gave the group its name.
[4] Two exhibitions resulted, The Euston Road School and others in May 1948 and a group retrospective which the Arts Council toured in 1948 and 1949.
Rodgers worked at Camberwell until 1950 and then taught at the Slade until 1963, when he became the Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading, a post he held until 1972.
[2] From 1956 onwards Rogers and his wife owned a property at Somerton in Suffolk and they both painted landscapes in the area.