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Woolner, Thomas
Woolner, Thomas (1825–92). English sculptor. He was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, the only sculptor among the members. His early career was unsuccessful, so he decided to try his hand at gold-prospecting in Australia; his departure in 1852 inspired Ford Madox Brown's picture The Last of England (1852–5, City AG, Birmingham). Woolner found little gold in Australia, but he began to prosper as a portrait sculptor, and after returning to England in 1854 he made a name for himself with his marble bust of his friend Alfred Tennyson of 1857 (Trinity College, Cambridge, and several replicas). His work was praised for its lifelikeness and he produced portraits of many other distinguished sitters. Woolner also did a few figure subjects, occasionally painted, and wrote poetry.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Woolner, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Woolner, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-WoolnerThomas.html IAN CHILVERS. "Woolner, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-WoolnerThomas.html |
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Woolner, Thomas
Woolner, Thomas (1825–92), poet and sculptor, one of the original Pre-Raphaelite brethren, who contributed to the Germ two cantos of what was to become My Beautiful Lady (1863). He became a prosperous portrait sculptor, doing busts and statues of (among many others), Tennyson, Newman, C. Kingsley, and J. S. Mill. His other poems include the blank verse Pygmalion (1881). ‘The Piping Shepherd’, which appears as a frontispiece to Palgrave's Golden Treasury, is by him.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Woolner, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Woolner, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-WoolnerThomas.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Woolner, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-WoolnerThomas.html |
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