The principal art dealer of his time, specialising in paintings and Old Master drawings and prints. Based at 112, St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, he resided in Piccadilly then Park Lane. Woodburn owned the following Wilsons:
P67 Landscape Capriccio with the Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii and the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo;
D191 Italian Landscape, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California;
D407 Ariccia from Lake Albano, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.