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5 unusual facts about Thomas Woolner


Bockleton

The parish church of St Michael has an 1867 monument, in white marble, by Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner to William Prescott, a local squire who died from an infection caught after tending his sick gamekeeper.

Hyde Park, Sydney

The Sculptor was Thomas Woolner (December 17, 1825 – October 7, 1892) and the statue was cast by Cox & Sons, at its Thames Ditton Foundry, Surrey, England.

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Rolleston Statue

At the time of its unveiling, the sculpture was regarded as a good likeness of Rolleston though has been criticised in more recent times as being "rigid" and "lacking surface interest" when compared to the other Christchurch statues sculpted by Thomas Woolner and George Lawson.

Thomas Woolner

Their son, Hugh, travelled back to his home in New York from her funeral on the RMS Titanic.


Francis Turner Palgrave

In 1884 he resigned his position at the Education Department, and in the following year succeeded John Campbell Shairp as professor of poetry at Oxford.There was a minor scandal in 1862 when Palgrave was commissioned to write a catalogue for the 1862 International Exhibition, in which he praised his friend the sculptor Thomas Woolner and denigrated other sculptors, especially Woolner's main rival Carlo Marochetti.


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