Career
Grogan initially trained in Cork under the local painter John Butts, with Dutch painters such as Hobbema and Heemskerck as his key influences. He had begun life as an apprentice to his father, a turner and block maker, but had a love for the arts and taught himself to draw. Little, if any, is known of the paintings he produced in the New World.
Grogan went on to produce numerous oil and watercolour paintings depicting landscapes and genre scenes of his native Cork.
The View of Cork in the collection of the city"s Crawford Art Gallery, previously believed to be by Grogan, is now attributed to his teacher, John Butts.