American sculptor, born in Waterloo, near Auburn, NY, on the 6th of July 1825, and did not begin the study of art until twenty-three years of age. He studied under Lorenzo Bartolini, in Rome, from 1848 to 1850, then for five years he had a studio in New York, after which he returned to Italy in 1855. His works include the ideal busts, Ruth (1851) and Isaac (1865); Nydia (1856); Boy Skating (1857); Angel of the Resurrection (1861–62), which is on the monument to Col. Samuel Colt, in Hartford, CT; Lost Pleiad (1875); Genius of Connecticut (1877), on the State capitol at Hartford; memorial monuments for Cincinnati (1863–64), Providence (1871), Detroit (1872), and Worcester, MA (1874), an equestrian group of Indians (1881), and portrait statues of John Adams (1857), placed in Mt. Auburn cemetery, Abraham Lincoln (1871), in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and William H. Seward (1876), at Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York. The bas-reliefs on the bronze doors of the capitol at Washington, one of his best-known works, representing scenes from the life of Columbus, were designed in 1858. He also completed the Washington Monument at Richmond, which Thomas Crawford had left unfinished. Crawford had made no designs for the statues of Mason, Marshall, and Nelson, and these, as well as some allegorical figures, were added by Rogers.
