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The Favored Scholar
John Rogers (born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904)
patented 1873
- Medium
- cast and painted plaster
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 21 1/8 x 16 1/8 x 12 1/4 in. (53.5 x 40.9 x 31.0 cm.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Rogers and Son
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
The Favored Scholar was one of John Rogers’s more sentimental groups, showing a girl receiving special attention from a young male teacher. It proved a very personal subject for one schoolteacher, Mr. B. W. Woodward from Pennsylvania, who gave this sculpture pride of place after he married his own “favored scholar.”
