Sally Rogers (c. 1790 – 1813) was an early 19th-century painter who worked holding the brush in her mouth, as she was born without arms or legs.
[2]: 2 In order to earn a living, she became "an itinerant painter and show woman,"[3]: 2 traveling from her home in 1807 to Northampton, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut on the way to New York City.
[3]: 5 Edward Savage's Columbian Gallery in New York City,[4] where she was known as Miss Sally Rogers, "the armless paper cutter," exhibited her and her work.
[1]: 188 It was at this point that the emphasis moved from her as a person needing charity to her talent as an artist, and she stopped using Sally and became known as Sarah Rogers.
[3]: 5–6 After New York City, she traveled to Philadelphia, where, in 1811, the Society of Artists in the United States, formed the previous year by Charles Willson Peale and other painters, had their first exhibition.