Rogers was born in London but spent his childhood in Buenos Aires. He attended the
Slade School of Art between 1925 and 1929, where he won a scholarship to study in Paris throughout 1930. He returned to Britain in 1931 and lived in the Norwegian Seamen's Mission building in Gravesend. He joined the London Artists' Association in 1931 and had his first exhibition with them in 1933. Rogers obtained a teaching appointment in 1935 at Raynes Park in London. In 1937 he married
Elsie Few, a fellow artist. Rogers was one of the original members of the, short-lived but highly influential,
Euston Road School in 1937. He taught at their original premises in Fitzroy Street and, from February 1938, at the Euston Road location that gave the group its name. Also, in 1938 he became a member of the
London Group and held a solo show at the
Leicester Galleries in 1940. Membership of the
New English Art Club followed in 1943. During the Second World War Rogers served in the
Royal Engineers until he was injured in 1943. He continued to paint and received a commission from the
War Artists' Advisory Committee in May 1942 for a picture. He also painted
Janet Vaughan in her role as principal of
Somerville College, Oxford. After the war Rogers, and other former members of the Euston Road school, taught at the
Camberwell School of Art. In 1959 Rogers was appointed OBE. Works by Claude Rogers are held in the collections of the
Tate, the
National Portrait Gallery, the
National Trust, the
Arts Council Collection and in the UK Government art collection. A major retrospective of Roger's work was held at the
Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1973 and another at the
Ben Uri Gallery during 1992 and 1993. A joint Rogers and Few exhibition was held in 2002 at the Belgrave Gallery. ==References==