Mrs. Warren Rogers

Julie Françoise Gabrielle d'Anterroches (1794–1888) was the daughter of Mary Vanderpoel and Joseph Louis, chevalier d'Anterroches, a distant relative of Laffayette. She first married a potter, Edward Griffith, a native of Newcastle, Staffordshire, England, in 1811. She gave birth to five children and was widowed in 1820. In 1821 she wed Warren Rogers, a New York flour merchant. This portrait was probably painted in commemoration of their marriage. Paradise had received early training in the Neoclassical style from his French émigré teacher Denis A. Volozan. His emphasis on a strongly linear neoclassicism similar to the styles of Jacques Louis David or Philadelphia artist James Peale, is possibly an evocation of his sitter’s French heritage.