Thomas Woolner

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Biography

• Brief biography (needed)
• Chronology
• 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

Works Illustrated

• Puck, 1847
• Coventry Patmore, 1849
• Emily Augusta Patmore, 1849
• Wordsworth Memorial Plaque, 1851
• sculpture for Monument to William Wordsworth, 1852
• W. C. Wentworth, 1853-54
• Thomas Carlyle, c.1855
• Alfred Tennyson (medallion), 1856
• Robert Browning (medallion), 1856
• Francis Bacon, 1857
• Professor Adam Sedgwick, 1860
• sculpture for Cawnpore Memorial, 1861
• Brother and Sister, or Deaf and Dumb, 1862
• Dr. John Henry Newman, 1867
• Heavenly Welcome, 1867
• Mother and Child (The Lord's Prayer), 1867
• Achilles and Pallas Athena , 1868
• In Memoriam, 1870
• Guinevere, 1872
• Feeding the Hungry, 1872
• Alfred Tennyson (bust) 1873
• Ophelia, 1874
• John Hunter, 1874
• Bluecoat Boy Group. (Lamb. Middleton. Coleridge.), 1875
• Charles Kingsley, 1876
• Sir Cowasfee Jehanghir Readymoney, 1878
• Godiva, 1878
• John Stuart Mill, 1878
• Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, 1883
• Water Lily, 1884
• Sir Stamford Raffles, 1887

References

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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Last modified 20 November 2008