Thomas Woolner (1825-1892)

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Biography

• Biography (adapted from the Dictionary of National Biography)
• List of Works (from Thomas Woolner, R. A.: Sculptor and Poet)
• An Appreciation of Woolner's Work” by J. L. Tupper.

Cultural Contexts

• The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Nineteenth-Century British Sculpture
• Australian Emigration

Portraits

• Coventry Patmore, 1849
• Emily Augusta Patmore, 1849
• W. C. Wentworth, 1853-54
• Thomas Carlyle, versions 1851, 1852, & c.1855
• Alfred Tennyson (medallion), 1856
• Alfred Tennyson (bust), 1857

• Robert Browning (medallion), 1856
• Francis Bacon, 1857
• Professor Adam Sedgwick, 1860
• Brother and Sister, or Deaf and Dumb, 1862
• Dr. John Henry Newman, 1867
• Mother and Child (The Lord's Prayer), 1867
• Lord Lawrence, Viceroy of India, 1867
• Alfred Tennyson Medallion
• Alfred Tennyson (bust) 1873
• John Hunter, 1874
• Bluecoat Boy Group. (Lamb. Middleton. Coleridge.), 1875
• Lord Lawrence, Viceroy of India (full-length), 1875
• Charles Kingsley, 1876
• John Tyndall (medallion), 1876
• Viscount Palmerston, unveiled 1876
• Captain Cook
• Sir Cowasjee Jehanghir Readymoney, 1878
• John Stuart Mill, 1878
• Captain Cook, 1878
• Lord Lawrence, Viceroy of India (bust), 1879
• Joseph Chamberlain, 1880
• Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, 1883

• Dorothy, 1883
• Alice Gertrude Woolner, 1883
• Queen Victoria, 1883
• Sir Stamford Raffles, 1887
• Charles Howitt
• Samuel Woolcott Browne
• David Sassoon, 1865

Religious, Literary, and Mythological Subjects

• Puck, 1847 (plaster version)
• Puck, 1845-47 (coloured plaster version)
• Puck, 1849 (another version)
• Achilles and Pallas Athena , 1868 (bronze version)
• Achilles and Pallas Athena, 1868 (plaster version)
• Guinevere, 1872
• Feeding the Hungry, 1872
• Ophelia, 1874
• The Crucifixion — a Reredos, 1876
• Godiva, 1878

Miscellaneous

• Weaving
• Sculpture for Cawnpore Memorial, 1861
• Water Lily, 1884
• The Housemaid

Funerary Sculpture

• Wordsworth Memorial Plaque, 1851
• Sculpture for Monument to William Wordsworth, 1852
• Heavenly Welcome, 1867
• In Memoriam, 1870
• Memorial plaque for Henrietta Elizabeth Froude, 1875

Drawings

• A Visitor

Sculptural works not illustrated in the Victorian Web

• Henry Christy, 1868 (British Museum MLA OA 10527)

Bibliography

Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Woolner, Amy. Thomas Woolner, R. A.: Sculptor and Poet. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1917.

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