John Rogers Herbert

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

Herbert went in 1825 to London at the Royal Academy and, after he had painted Princess Victoria of England, soon as a portrait painter in the aristocracy popular. In 1835 he presented a genre picture that rendezvous, from which was painted in the style of the new school of the English Pre-Raphaelites. His early works were influenced by the Romantic and the Venetian painting:

• Haydee (1834 ), prayer (1835 )
• Prisoners freed of condottieri (1836 ),
• Desdemona asks for Cassio (1838 ),

In 1840, he joined under the influence of his friend, the architect W. Payne, about the Catholic Church. This gave Herbert's images more depth and personality. Important works:

• The resistance
• The Venetian procession of 1528 (both from 1839 )
• Disciples before the gate of a monastery
• The signal ( 1840)
• Kidnapping Venetian brides by Seeräuberaus Istria (1841 )
• Introduction of Christianity in Brittany (1842 )
• Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1843 )
• Sir Thomas More and his daughter
• The trial of the seven Bishops ( 1844)
• The hl. Gregory taught the Roman children in song (1845 )
• The Boy Jesus at the sight of a Cross ( 1847)
• John the Baptist before Herod
• Laborare est orare (1862 )

In the halls of the new Parliament he painted: Moses with the tablets of the law, judgment of Solomon, visit of the Queen of Sheba, the Temple, Daniel in the lions' den, etc. In 1846 Herbert Member of the Royal Academy.

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