John Newman

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Incised on the front of the base: JOHN HENRY NEWMAN and on the side: T. Woolner Sc/1866

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Related to the marble bust by Woolner of 1866 at Keble College, Oxford. There is another plaster cast at Trinity College, Oxford. The NPG bust was purchased with a collection of other plaster busts by Woolner.

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The artist, purchased from his daughter, Miss Amy Woolner, 1912.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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