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Thomas Woolner - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | THOMAS WOOLNER (1825-1892), British sculptor and poet, was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, on the i 7th of December 1825. |
 | | Woolner became, in the autumn of 1848, one of the seven Pre-Raphaelite Brethren, and took a leading part in The Germ (1850), the opening poem in which, called " My Beautiful Lady," was written by him. |
 | | Among Woolner's busts are those of Newman, Darwin, Sedgwick, Huxley, Cobden, Professor Lushington, Dickens, Kingsley, and Sir William Gull, besides the repetition, with variations, of Gladstone for the Bodleian, Oxford, and Mansion House, London, and Tennyson. |
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