James Edward Rogers

James Edward Rogers (1838 – 18 February 1896) was an Irish artist, architect, and book-illustrator whose early career was in Dublin.

His early education was there, then he attended the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, before joining Trinity College Dublin, where he matriculated on 2 July 1855, aged seventeen.

Woodward overwintered in Madeira for the sake of his lungs, and in the spring of 1860 Rogers travelled to meet him, either in the South of France or Algiers.

[2] Early examples of Rogers's work as an architect are the Carmichael School of Medicine (1864) and the rectory of St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin.

[6] In 1861, some of his work appeared at the Exhibition of Fine and Ornamental Arts, Dublin,[2] and from 1870 he showed pictures at the Royal Hibernian Academy.

[2] In England, Rogers lived in Maida Vale, from 1876 to 1880; Portman Square, from 1881 to 1883; Hampstead, from 1884 to 1893; and finally in Regent's Park, from 1894 until his death in February 1896.

His executors were an unmarried sister, Miss Ethel Mary Rogers, and Frederick James Quick, a coffee merchant.