Rokeby Venus Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, along with 25 other paintings at least claimed to be by Velázquez; it was here that it became known as the "Rokeby Venus". It does not appear to have been copied by other artists, engraved or otherwise reproduced, until this period. In 1890 it was exhibited in the Royal Academy in London, and in 1905 at Messrs. Agnews, the dealers who had bought it from Morritt. From 1906 it was highly visible in the National Gallery and became well-known globally through reproductions. The general influence of the painting was therefore long delayed, although individual artists would
Rokeby Preparatory School late 2009: "Rokeby: the first 125 years". The uniform of Junior Rokeby (itself started in 1970), until the unification of the junior and senior schools, was a grey pair of shorts above the knees, a grey woollen blazer with the Junior Rokeby wheel crest and a red and black schoolboy cap. A white, short-sleeved shirt with a red and black striped tie was worn. The senior school wore grey trousers with a grey woollen blazer, distinguishable from the Junior Rokeby blazer by its red and blue piping on the lapels. The tie carries grey, black and red stripes. In 2009,