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A Portrait Medallion of William Charles Wentworth
Details
THOMAS WOOLNER (British, 1825-1892)
A Portrait Medallion of William Charles Wentworth
signed and dated 'T Woolner Sc/1854' (lower centre)
bronze, in a circular wood frame
21cm diameter
A Portrait Medallion of William Charles Wentworth
signed and dated 'T Woolner Sc/1854' (lower centre)
bronze, in a circular wood frame
21cm diameter
Provenance
anon. sale, Christie's, Melbourne, Decorative Arts, 24 March 1997, lot 595
Literature
A Woolner, Thomas Woolner, RA, Sculptor and Poet: His Life in Letters, London, 1917, pp. 72-3, 102-3, 337 (list of works)
G Sturgeon, The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975, London, 1978, pp. 23-25, p. 24 (illus of the Wentworth medallion in the Art Gallery of New South Wales)
J Barness and H Read, Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture: Nature and Imagination in British Sculpture 1848-1914, exhibition catalogue, Matthieson Gallery, London, October-December 1991, travelling to Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, January-March 1992
G Sturgeon, The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975, London, 1978, pp. 23-25, p. 24 (illus of the Wentworth medallion in the Art Gallery of New South Wales)
J Barness and H Read, Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture: Nature and Imagination in British Sculpture 1848-1914, exhibition catalogue, Matthieson Gallery, London, October-December 1991, travelling to Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, January-March 1992
Special notice
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