Sculptor. He is recognized as a prolific sculptor of Victorian England. In 1848 he was one of the seven founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the only sculptor in the group. His most recognized sculpture could be the 1887 bronze full-sized statue of Sir Stamford Raffles located in Singapore in the front of Victoria Memorial Hall at Empress Palace. Using a more classical style, his sculptures show close attention to detail including not only the anatomy of facial expressions but folds in the clothing. He had an apprenticeship under well-respected sculptors before entering the Royal Academy Schools and exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1843. After traveling to Australia in 1852 for a year to search for gold, he produced 24 portrait medallions of the country's most prominent citizens instead of finding his riches in gold. While in Australia, he painted an overview of the gold fields showing the poor living conditions in the miners' tented community. He returned to England to gain a worthwhile career by producing many portrait busts, medallions, tomb sculptures and narrative reliefs. Besides the statue of Raffles, he fabricated Captain James Cook's full-sized statue at Sydney, Australia; John Robert Godley's statue at Christchurch, New Zealand in 1867; John Henry Newman's bust and Francis Bacon and Prince Albert's full-sized statue at Oxford College; Queen Victoria's full-sized statue at Birmingham's Council House; Professor of Botany John Stevens Henslow's bust at University of Cambridge; Professor Thomas Henry Huxley's bust at Dick Institute; several busts of Charles Dickens; and Alfred Tennyson's four busts, including ones at Trinity College in Cambridge; the Haslemere Educational Museum and Westminster Abbey. Others at Westminster Abbey are Richard Cobden, John Keble, Charles Kingsley, and Lord Lawrence. Starting in 1864, his largest commission was statues for the new Manchester Assize Courts, which was almost completely destroyed with Nazi bombing during World War II, with the remains demolished in 1957. Most of his statues were rescued and exhibited in the new buildings. The theme of the commission was the Common Law through the ages with life-sized statues of Biblical figures, kings, lawgivers and allegories such as the "drunk woman" and the "good woman." He occasionally painted portraits of his most noted friends. In 1861 he drew the frontispiece for Francis Turner Palgrave's "Golden Treasure." He also wrote some poetry, and was a close friend of renowned poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. His long poem "My Beautiful Lady" was fully published in 1863. He authored the poem shortly before he married Alice Gertrude Waugh. The couple had six children, four daughters and two sons. Only one son, Hugh, lived to adulthood. Hugh traveled from New York to England for his mother's 1912 funeral, and on the return trip to New York, he was a passenger on the RMS Titanic, surviving the ship's sinking. His oldest daughter Amy published his biography. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1874 and two years later, he became a professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy for five years. Unexpectedly, Woolner died from a stroke the day after Tennyson's death. The National Portrait Gallery in London, has eight of his medallions and eleven of his busts, as well as a plethora of photographs of him.