sketcher, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, eldest daughter of William Rogers, a Cornish stonemason, builder, pastoralist and member of parliament, and Elizabeth Ann, née Wright. She won a prize of 3 guineas 'for the most meritorious original picture by a young lady’ for her view of St Peter’s College shown with the South Australian Society of Arts in 1864. The next year she won second prize in the same section; her younger sister Jane (q.v.) won first prize. In 1866 Elizabeth Margaret’s The Port Creek won another prize, but Miss Rogers’s prize-winning pen-and-ink Gipsy and the Children (presumably also hers) was considered to 'present no features worthy of special notice’ when the exhibition was reviewed in the South Australian Advertiser. Photographs of St Peter’s College and The Port Creek (both watercolours) are in the Mitchell Library. Elizabeth Margaret Rogers married Mr Verco, a stonemason from Cornwall who had settled in South Australia like her father.
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- Date written:
- 1992
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- 2011
