Phlip Hutchins Rogers 1794-1853

The painting shows Fort Regent to the left and Elizabeth Castle in St Aubin's bay to the right.  The prominent church tower is probably St Mark's, but possibly St Thomas's.

The artist P.H. Rogers was born in Plymouth, studying at Plymouth Grammar School where one of his fellow pupils was Benjamin Robert Haydon.  His first important patron was Lord Boringdon for whom he painted views of Saltram.  In the 1820s he travelled both to Scotland and to Europe, and by the late 1830s he had settled abroad, dying in 1853 at Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden.  The first of his several exhibited Jersey views was Arguelle Bay, Jersey, Evening, shown at the British Institution in 1830.  A large picture entitled St Helier with Fort Royal, Jersey, exhibited at the British Institution in 1833 is, judging from its size, the picture in the Barreau le Maistre Gallery in Jersey.  It shows St Helier from a considerable distance with far less topographical detail than is shown in the present work.