# The Favored Scholar

- By: John Rogers (born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904)
- Date: 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.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Rogers and Son
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=21145)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ab06a1290e2385c0d0a9e2a8eed76420.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.”