A List of the Works of Thomas Woolner

Amy Woolner

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

As a rule the dates of works in this list represent the date of exhibition, not when the work was finished. The date on a marble bust means when it was finished. As examples, the bust of Sir William Hooker was finished in 1859, and has that date on the base; but it was exhibited 1860, whioh constitutes the date of copyright. The bust of the Rev. F. D. Maurice was finished in 1858, and not exhibited till 1861.

1843

• "Eleanor sucking poison from wound of Prince Edward." Group, plaster.

1844

• "Death of Boadicea." Life-size group, plaster.

1845

• "Affection." Bas-relief, plaster.

1846

• "Alastor." Bas-relief, plaster.

1847

• Adolphus Ashford. Medallion, plaster.
• "Puck." (Exhibited British Institution.) Statuette, plaster.
• "Feeding the Hungry." (Boy and Chickens.) Figure, plaster.

1848

• "Eros and Euphrosyne" (reproduced in black Wedgwood).
• "The Rainbow." Bas-relief, plaster.
"Titania and the Indian Boy." Group, plaster.

1849

• " Little Red Ridinghood." Figure (reproduced” by Copeland).
• Coventry Patmore. Medallion, plaster.

1850

• Mrs. Coventry Patmore. Medallion, plaster.

1851

• Mrs. Orme. Medallion, plaster (not exhibited).
• Rosaline Orme. Medallion, bronze (not exhibited).
• Alfred Tennyson. Medallion, plaster.
• Thomas Carlyle. Medallion, plaster.
• William Wordsworth. Memorial tablet with medallion portrait. (Grasmere Church.) Marble.

1852

• "England rewards agriculture." sculpture for medal.
• sculpture for Monument to William Wordsworth, consisting of seated figure of the Poet on a pedestal decorated with bas-relief of "Peter Bell and his Ass," and two groups of two figures Father and Son, Mother and Daughter.

1853 and 1854: The Australian Portraits

All these medallions were cast in bronze, and some reduced to quarter size. Small specimens of Governor Latrobe and W. C. Wentworth are in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

• W. C. Wentworth. Medallion portrait.
• Governor-Gencral Sir Charles Fitzroy. Medallion portrait.
• James Martin. Medallion portrait.
• Governor Latrobe. Medallion portrait.
• Captain Cole. Medallion portrait.
• Octavius Browne. Medallion portrait.
• John Pinney Bear. Medallion portrait.
• Mrs. Bear. Medallion portrait.
• Dr. Howitt. Medallion portrait.
• Mrs. Howitt. Medallion portrait.
• Miss Edith Howitt. Medallion portrait.
• (Charley Howitt as a child). Medallion portrait.
• William Fanning. Medallion portrait.
• Mrs. Fanning. Medallion portrait.
• Admiral Philip Parker King. Medallion portrait
• Edward Hamilton. Medallion portrait.
• Sir Charles Nicholson. Medallion portrait.
• W. Macarthur. Medallion portrait
• George Macleay. Medallion portrait.
• Mr. Reynolds. Medallion portrait.
• James Macarthur. Medallion portrait.
• Dr. Bland. Medallion portrait.
• Thomas Barker. Medallion portrait.
• Portrait of a Lady. Medallion.

1855

• Thomas Carlyle. Medallion, bronze.

1856

• "Love." Half-lifesized. Statuette, marble.
• Mrs. Neville. Medallion.
• Helen F. Orme. Medallion. (Exhibited at Royal Academy as "Portrait of a Lady.")
• Robert Browning. Medallion.
• Alfred Tennyson. Medallion.

1857

• Lord Bacon. Statue, Caen stone. (New Museum, Oxford.)
• Alfred Tennyson. Bust, marble. (In Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.)

1858

• Models of Moses, David, St. John, St. Paul (for Pulpit of Llandaff Cathedral).

1859

• Mrs. Tennyson. Medallion.
• George Warde Norman. Medallion.
• Rt. Hon. Stephen Lushington. Medallion.
• Thomas Fairbairn. Medallion, bronze.
• Alexander A. Knox. Medallion, bronze.
• Rajah Brook of Sarawak. Bust, marble.
• Edward Henry Lushington. (A child's head.) Bust, marble.

1860

• Sir William Hooker. (Linnean Society.) Bust, marble.
• Professor Sedgwick. (In Trinity College, Cambridge.) Bust, marble.
• Edward H. J. Crawford. Medallion.
• sculpture for Palmer Cross. Marble.

1861

• Sir Francis Palgrave. Medallion.
• Rev. W. G. Clark. Medallion.
• Rev. F. D. Maurice. Bust, marble.
  • Exhibited in Royal Academy 1863.
  • Replica in Westminster Abbey.
  • Replica in Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • The original in Working Women's College.
• John Ashley Warre (Ramsgate). Tablet, marble.
• Professor Henslow. Bust, marble.
• sculpture for Cawnpore Memorial (not executed).

1862

• William Miller Christy. Bust, marble.
• "Brother and Sister." (Constance and Arthur.) Lifesize group, marble. (Exhibited at Great International Exhibition, 1862.)
• William Fairbairn. Bust, marble. (Exhibited International Exhibition.)
• William Shaen. Bust, marble.

1863

• Archdeacon Hare. Bust, marble.
• Arthur Hugh Clough. Bust, marble.

1864

• The Prince Consort. Statue, Caen stone. (New Museum, Oxford.)
• Thomas Combe. Bust, marble.
• Gifford Palgrave. Medallion.
• William Spottiswoode. Bust, plaster.

1865

• John Robert Godley. Statue, bronze. (Exhibited in South Kensington Museum. Erected in New Zealand, 1867.)
• Miss Emily Rhodes. Medallion, plaster.
• Professor Cockerell. Bust, plaster ?
• sculpture for Spofforth Cross. Marble.
• Lord Ashburton. Bust, marble.

1865

• Richard Cobden. Bust, marble. Three replicas were carved of Cobden's bust:
  • one is in Westminster Abbey;
  • one in National Portrait Gallery, London,
  • one went to Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.
  David Sassoon. Bust, marble.

1866

• John M. Remble, Anglo-Saxon scholar. Bust.
• John Fowler. Bust, marble.
• Mr. Coz. Bust.
• Sir William Hooker. Medallion.
• Lord Macaulay. Statue, marble. (Seated figure in Ante-Chapel, Trinity College, Cambridge.)
• Dr. Symonds, of Clifton. Bust, marble.
• " Puck." Figure, bronze. (Exhibited Royal Academy. Modelled in 1847.)

1867

• Dr. John Henry Newman. (Afterwards Cardinal Newman.) Bust, marble.
• "Heavenly Welcome." Marble monument, alto-relief. (In memory of Mrs. Archibald Peel and Son, in Wrexham Church, North Wales.)
• Henry Christy. Bust, marble. (In British Museunl'.)
• Henry Christy. Medallion, marble.
• Prescott Memorial. Marble. (Recumbent figure and bas-relief.)
• Captain Fowke. Bust. (In Victoria and Albert Museum, sent to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition.)
• Mother and Child. Lifesize group, marble. (Called the Trevelyan Group, executed for Sir Walter Trevelyan of Wallington. Exhibited South Kensington Museum, 1867.)
• Alfred Tennyson. Three-quarter medallion.
  • Modelled in 1864.
  • Exhibited Royal Academy, 1867.

• Sculptures modelled for Manchester Assize Courts

Figures of Alfred, Henry II, Edward I, Randolph de Glanville, Judge Gascoigne, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas More, Sir Matthew Hale. Mercy. Justice.

• Large statue of Moses.
• Alto-relief Judgment of Solomon -- figures Good Woman and Drunken Woman.
• Two Alto-reliefs of Historical Subjects.

1868

• Elaine. Half-lifesize. Statuette, marble. (Three replicas of this figure were carved.)

1868

• William III. Statue, marble. (Westminster Hall.)
• Dr. Robert Haines. Bust, marble. (Bombay.)
• Dr. William Hey. Bust, marble. (Leeds Infirmary)
• Sir Mark Cubbon. Bust, marble. (India.)
• R. E. Ellis. Bust. (Trinity College, Cambridge.)
• W. E. Frere. Bust, marble.
• Thomas Carlyle. Bust, marble.
(Modelled in 1865, exhibited Royal Academy, 1868, for Louisa Lady Ashburton.) Mrs. Hichens. Medallion.
• William Dobson. Bust, marble (Cheltenham.)
• Three Bas-reliefs. Marble.
  • Thetis coaxing Zeus.
  • Achilles and Pallas Athena.
  • Thetis and Achilles. (For Gladstone Memorial in Bodleian, Oxford.)
  Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone. Bust, marble.

1869

• Sir Bartle Frere. Bust, marble.
• Joseph Pease. Bust, marble.
• Edward Wilson. Bust, marble. (Public Library, Melbourne.) *
• "Ophelia." Half-lifesize. Statuette, marble. (Two or three replicas were carved of this work.)
• David Sassoon. Statue, marble. (Mechanics Institute, Bombay. Exhibited at South Kensington Museum.)
• Mrs. Hall. Medallion.
• Hatley Frere. Bust, marble.
• sculpture for Neave Memorial. Cross, marble.
• Mrs. Cleverly Alezander. Medallion, marble.
• Charles Darwin. Medallion. (Wedgwood.)
• Lord Palmerston. Statue, bronze. No. 1.

1870

• "In Memoriam." (Four Children in Paradise.) Alto-relief, plaster.
• Charles Darwin. Bust marble.
• Dobson Memorial Tablet. Marble. (Cheltenham College Chapel.)
• sculpture for Ogle Cross.
• Memorial medallion of Galt, novelist. (Greenock.)
• A. H. Novelli. Medallion.
• Dr. Rees. Bust, marble.

1871

• Sir J. Hope Grant. Bust, marble.
• Bishop Temple. (Afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.) Bust, marble.
• Bright. Memorial tablet.
• Dr. Bayer. Bust, marble.
• Lord Lawrence. Bust.
• "Virgilia bewailing Banishment of Coriolanus." Alto-relief, marble.

1872

• Guinevere. Half-lifesize. Statuette, marble. (Two replicas were carved of this figure.)
• Four Bas-reliefs. Bronze.
• Decoration of a Memorial Fountain at Wigton to Mrs. George Moore. (Exhibited Royal Academy.)
• Four Acts of Mercy: Feeding the Hungry; Clothing the Naked; Visiting the Afflicted; Teaching the Ignorant.
• Charles Dickens. Bust, marble.
• Mrs. Milnes-Gaskell. Bust, marble.
• Sir Bartle Frere. Statue, marble. (Bombay.)
• Mr. Tilleard. Bust, plaster.
• Sculpture for Lucas Medal for Royal Academy of Music (Mercury teaching a Shepherd Boy to sing).
• Sir John Simeon. Bust, plaster.
• " In Memoriam G. B." Alto-relief. (A boy in Paradise seated under a jessamine bough. Exhibited Royal Academy.)

1873

• Dr. Whewell. Statue, marble. (Seated figure in AnteChapel, Trinity College Cambridge.)
• John Keble. Bust, marbie. (Westminster Abbey.)
• Professor De Morgan. Bust, marble.
• Dr. Henry Bence Jones. Bust, marble. (Royal Institution.)
• W. W. Pearce. Bust, marble.
• sculpture for Simeon Cross. (Isle of Wight.)
• Memorial Tablet to John W. S. Wyllie.
• Professor De Morgan. Medallion. (sculpture for medal.)
• Mr. Knowles. Bust, marble.

1874

• John Hunter. Colossal bust, marble. (Leicester Squarea London.)
• Mrs. Alfred Morrison. Bust, marble.
• " Ophelia." Bust, marble.
• Alfred Tennyson. Bust draped, plaster.
• James Milnes-Gaskell. Bust, marble.
• "The Listening Boy." (Sketch for imaginary memorial to a deaf child. Plaster. (About this date.)

1875

• Bishop Patteson Memorial. Marble. (Merton College, Oxford.)
• Ransom Memorial Vase. Marble.
• Monument bas-relief. Mrs. James Anthony Froude, in St. Lawrence Church, Ramsgate. Marble.
• Sir William Fairbairn. Memorial Tablet. (Manchester.)
• Meynell-Ingram Monument. Marble. (Laughton, Lincs.)
• Bluecoat Boy Group. (Lamb. Middleton. Coleridge.) Bronze. (Christ's Hospital.)
• Winterbotham Medallion.
• Lord Lawrence. Statue, bronze. (Calcutta.)

1876

• Daniel Hanbury. Medallion, marble. (La Mortola, Mentone.)
• Alfred Tennyson. Bust, marble. (The bearded bust, in National Gallery, Adelaide. Modelled in 1873.)
• Lord Palmerston. Statue, bronze. (The second statue, the first being found too small when in position in Parliament Square.)
• "The Crucifixion." Reredos, marble. (St. John the Evangelist, Liverpool.)
• Lord Sandon. Bust, marble.
• Charles Kingsley. Bust, marble. (Westminster Abbey.)
• Professor T. H. Key. Bust, marble. (University College, Gower Street.)
• T. M. Talbot. Bust, plaster.
• Professor John Tyndall. Medallion.
• Sir Cowasfee Jehanghir Readimoney. Statue, marble. (Bombay.)
• Sir Cowasiee Jehanghir Readimoney. Relief, marble. (University of Edinburgh.)

1877

• Edwin Field. Statue, marble. New Law Courts, London.
• William Fuller-Maitland. Bust, marble.
• Edmund Law Lushington. Bust, marble. There was a replica. (University of Glasgow.)
• Cockerell medallion.

1878

• Sir Thomas White. Statue heroic, marble. (Merchant Taylors Company.) :
• "Godiva." Half-lifesize. Statuette, marble.
• Sir John Simon. Bust, marble. (Royal College of Surgeons.)
• John Owen. Medallion, marble. (Owens College, Manchester.)

1879

• Cookson. Bust, marble. (Peterhouse, Cambridge.)
• John Stuart Mill. Statue, bronze.(Seated figure. Thames Embankment.
• Captain Cook. Colossal statue, bronze. (For Sydney, N.S.W. Exhibited in Waterloo Place, London, June 1878; unveiled in Sydney, February, 1879.)
• W. M. Torr. Bust, marble.
• Professor Huxley. Bust, marble.
• James Aikin, J.P. Bust, marble. (Liverpool.)
• Judge Quain. Bust, marble.

1880

• Sir Redmond Barry. Bust, marble. (Melbourne Free Library.)
• W. G. Clark. Bust, marble. (Cambridge.)
• Joseph Chamberlain. Medallion, marble.
• Dr. Percival (afterwards Bishop of Hereford). Bust, marble. (Clifton College.)
• Memorial Headstone to Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A.
• Judge Keogh. Bust, marble.
• Hon. H. Dudley Ryder. Bust, marble.
• Lord Chief Justice Whiteside. Statue, marble. (Hall of the Four Courts, Dublin.)
• W. G. Clark Tablet.
• Sir William Gull. Bust, marble.
• Mr. Cammell. Bust, marble.

1881

• Lord Lawrence. Bust, marble. (With Star of India. Westminster Abbey.)
• "Enid." Half-lifesize. Statuette, marble.
• sculpture for tomb -- Dr. Percy's wife.
• Hepworth Dixon. Three-quarter memorial Medallion. (Kensal Green.)
• Bunyan (colossal Head). Alto-relief, stone.
• Cromwell (colossal Head). Alto-relief, stone.
• Shakespeare. Alto-relief.
• T. Carlyle. Alto-relief. (Birmingham.)

1882

• sculpture for Science Research Medal. (University College, Gower Street.)
• James Spedding. Medallion, marble. (Ante-Chapel, Trinity College, Cambridge)
• E. M. Barry, R.A. Bust, marble
• Sir Edwin landseer. Monument, marble. (In Crypt of St. Paul's.)
• sculpture for Percival Cross. (Holywell. Oxford.)
• Earl of Clanwilliam (father of Admiral Earl of Clanwilliam.) Bust, marble.
• George Dawson. Statue, marble.

1883

• Queen Victoria. Statue, marble. (Exhibited Royal Academy, 1888; sent to Birmingham 1884.)
Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone. Bust, marble. (For Corporation of City of London in Guildhall. Exhibited Royal Academy.)
• Sir William Erle. Bust, marble. (Temple Library.)
• Dorothy. Medallion, marble.
• Miss Hankey. Bust, plaster.
• Alice Gertrude Woolner. Medallion.
• Clare Woolner. Medallion.
• Phyllis Woolner. Medallion.
• Lord Lawrence. Medallion. (sculpture for gold medal.)
• Walcott Leigh Browne. Medallion, marble.

1884

• Gleadhall Tablet. (Foundling Hospital.)
• Earl of Beaconsfield. Bust, bronze.
• Earl Russell. Bust, bronze. (Sydney, N.S.W.) "The Water Lily." Alto-relief, bronze.

1885

• Lord Frederick Cavendish. Recumbent statue, marble. (Monument in Cartmel Priory Church. Exhibited Royal Academy, 1885.)
• Richard Quain, anatomist. Bust, marble.
• Mrs. Mirrielees. Medallion, marble. (Exhibited Royal Academy, 1885.)
• Sir Donald Currie. Bust, marble. (Exhibited Royal Academy, 1885.)
• James Barclay, M.P. Medallion, bronze.
• Mrs. Barclay. Medallion, bronze.
• Lord Palmerston. Bust, bronze. Earl of Derby. Bust, bronze. (Sydney, N.S.W.)

1886

• Lady Currie. Bust, marble. (Not exhibited.)
• Miss Currie. Three-quarter medallion, marble. (Not exhibited.)
• Professor Munro. Bust, marble. (Trinity College, Cambridge)
• Sir Henry Parkes. Bust, plaster.

1887.

• Bishop Jackson. Bishop of London. Recumbent statue, marble. (Monument in St. Paul's.)
• Andrew Knowles. Bust, marble.
• sculpture for the Brook Cross.
• Sir Stamford Raffles. Colossal statue, bronze. (Singapore.)

1888

• Bishop Fraser. Colossal statue, bronze. (Albert Square, Manchester.) (Three reliefs on the pedestal of statue in bronze.)

1889

• Rev. Coutts Trotter. Bust, marble. (Trinity College, Cambridge.)
• Sir Joseph Whitworth. Medallion, marble. (Owens College, Manchester.)
• Principal Harrison. Bust, marble. (Muir College, Allahabad.)

1890

• Sir Thomas Elder. Bust, marble. (University of Adelaide, South Australia.)
• The Marquis of Salisbury. Bust, bronze. (Sydney, N.S.W.)

1891

• Sir Robert Rawlinson. Bust, marble.

1893

• "The Housemaid." Life-size figure, bronze. (Exhibited in 189S at Royal Academy. The model was finished in Autumn of 1892. The sculptor's last work.)

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