John Rogers Herbert

John Rogers Herbert (born 23rd of January 1810 in Maldon, Essex; † 17th of March 1890 in Kilburn) was an English painter.

In 1825, Herbert went to the Royal Academy in London. After he was chosen to paint a portrait of Princess Victoria, he became a favourite portrait painter of the aristocracy.

In 1835 he painted in a new genre influenced by the new English school of pre-Raphaelite Nazarenes, painting with clean, strong stokes.

Nowhere was the influence of the alternative English painters clearer than in his later works:

* Haydee (1834)
* The prayer (1835)
* The prisoner of Condottieri freed(1836)
* Desdemona asks for Cassio (1838)

And in several scenes, the influence of Byron and out of the Venetian history could be seen. Around this time, his work was influenced by the architect W. Payne, a convert to the Catholic church. In 1840, Herbert also converted to the Catholic Church. He then painted mainly religious subjects. He portrayed his new beliefs in his pictures:

* The constancy
* the Venetian procession of 1528 (both from the year 1839)
* boy before the Thor of a cloister
* the signal (1840)
* kidnapping of Venetian brides through Seeräuberaus Istrien (1841)
* introduction of Christianity into the Bretagne (1842)
* Christ and the good samaritan (1843)
* Sir Thomas Morus and his daughter
* the procession of the seven bishops (1844)
* St. Gregor instructs the Roman children in the song (1845)
* Jesus in view of a cross (1847)
* Our saviour subject to his parents at Nazareth (1847)
* An Israeli Mother (1857)
* Mary Magdalen (1859)
* Laborare est Orare (1862)
* Valley of Moses, in the desert of Sinai (1866)
* Outside Jerusalem (1878)

In the halls of the new parliament, he painted: Moses with the 10 commandments, Salomos judgment, visit of the Queen of Sheba, the temple building, conviction of the incorrect prophet, Daniel in the lion's den etc.

Herbert became a member of the royal academy in 1846.