File:Crucifixion - Art life of William Rimmer.jpg

English: Crucifixion, part of an altarpiece painted by between 1850 and 1855. Originally located in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Randolph, Massachusetts.

Identifier: artwilliam00bart (find matches)
Title: Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett.
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Bartlett, Truman Howe
Subjects: American Painting
Publisher: James R. Osgood and Co.
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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pt as being the Avork of Dr. Rimmer. I have seen, how-ever, one miniature, executed at this time, exquisitely delicate in drawing andtender in color. The artist occasionally sold a picture for from ten to twenty dol-lars in Boston, in some auction; and he had occasional commissions to add cattle, orsome other accessory, to a landscape, for which quickly executed task he receivedusually two or three dollars. I was fortunate enough to discover one of thesetwenty-dollar pictures. Its sole merits were great distance and solid construction. While at Randolph, Dr. Rimmer worked with such intense zeal at his variousoccupations that he more than once fell from his shoemaking bench from sheerexhaustion. He earned enough to buy a small home, which, however, he soonsold, loaning to a needy friend the money received. Here, as elsewhere, his lifewas made up of extremes of happiness and sorrow. A family of boys and girlswas growing up about him ; and he longed for a more even future for himself and
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