THOMAS WOOLNER
1825-1892

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, ADELAIDE

THOMAS WOOLNER

1825-1892
William Charles Wentworth 1854

bronze
signed and dated 'T.Woolner Sc. 1854' lower centre
22.9 cm diameter

• Lot Sold $18,000 (Hammer Price)
• $21,960 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Simpson's Antiques, Sydney
Private Collection, South Australia

Exhibited

Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture (Joanna Barnes Fine Arts Ltd), The Matthiesen Gallery, London, 31 October - 12 December 1991; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, 15 January - 15 March 1992, no. 62 (another cast)

Literature

Medallion of Mr Wentworth', Empire, Sydney, 22 February 1854, p. 2
'Medallion of Mr W.C. Wentworth', The Illustrated Sydney News, 25 February 1854, p. 2
Letter, W.C. Wentworth to Thomas Woolner, 28 February 1854, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. Eng. Lett. D.293
'Medallion to Mr Wentworth', The Argus, Melbourne, 1 March 1854, p. 5
'Mr Woolner's Medallions', Empire, Sydney, 2 June 1854, p. 2
'A Memorial of Mr Wentworth', Empire, Sydney, 9 February 1857, p. 4
Amy Woolner (ed.), Thomas Woolner R.A., Sculptor and Poet: His Life in Letters, Chapman & Hall, London, 1917, p. 337
Graeme Sturgeon, The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975, Thames & Hudson, London, 1978, pp. 23, 24 (illustrated, another cast), 25
Ken Scarlett, Australian Sculpture, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1980, p. 709
Patricia R. McDonald and Barry Pearce, The Artist and the Patron: Aspects of Colonial Art in New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1988, pp. 46 (illustrated, another cast), 47 (no. 25)
Caroline Clemente, 'Thomas Woolner's Portrait Medallion of C.J. La Trobe', The La Trobe Journal, no. 80, Spring 2007, p. 61
Benedict Read and Joanna Barnes (eds.), Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture: Nature and Imagination in British Sculpture 1848 - 1914, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1991, pp. 23, 35, 38, 147 (illustrated, another cast), 148
William and Dorothy Hall, Carter's Collecting Australiana: A Guide to Australian Antiques and Collectibles, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1995, p. 128 (illustrated)
William and Dorothy Hall, Carter's Collecting Australiana 2nd Edition: A Guide to Australian Antiques and Collectibles, John Furphy Pty Ltd, Sydney, 2005, p. 141 (illustrated)