Thomas Woolner was an English sculptor and poet who was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the only sculptor among the original members.
Thomas Woolner, c. 1865
Portrait of Thomas Woolner by Andrew Carrick Gow (1883), Aberdeen Art Gallery
Virgilia bewailing the absence of Coriolanus in Strawberry Hill House
Illustration by Holman Hunt to Woolner's "My Beautiful Lady", published in The Germ, 1850
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel
Thomas Woolner
…Thomas Woolner (17 December 1825 – 7 October 1892) was an English sculptor and poet who was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the only sculptor among the original members. After participating in the foundation of the PRB, Woolner emigrated for a period to Australia…
William Holman Hunt, The Hireling Shepherd, 1851
Proserpine, 1874, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with Jane Morris as model
Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England depicting an emigrating couple, 1855
Christ in the House of His Parents, by John Everett Millais, 1850