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The Favored Scholar
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904
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.”
- Date
- patented 1873
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- cast and painted plaster
- Department
- SAAM
- Institution
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- saam_1882.1.7
- Credit
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Rogers and Son
