A List of the Works of Thomas Woolner

Amy Woolner


[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.

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:

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.

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.

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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