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William Rimmer  (1816–1879)
	Alternative names	Dr. William Rimmer; Rimmer
	Description	American painter, writer and sculptor
	Date of birth/death	20 February 1816	20 August 1879
	Location of birth/death	Liverpool	Massachusetts
	Authority file	: Q3637109 VIAF: 948360 ISNI: 0000000081910575 ULAN: 500016416 LCCN: n85045559 NLA: 35919185 WorldCat

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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wife and threedaughters. Concerning the possible results of such a visit his youngest daughterremarks, — If father had gone to Europe, I do not think he would have followed the tide offashion, but would have selected some place in Italy, Spain, or Greece, and settled downto quiet study. I think he expected eventually to see these countries. Under propercircumstances he would have started at any moment. The phenomena of light in Nor-way and Sweden and other northern latitudes was a subject upon which he often con-versed. I am not sure that he would ever have met the great artists abroad; for thereason that he would have been obliged to introduce himself as one entitled to recogni-tion, and this I think he would never have been willing to do. To present a letter ofintroduction was for him an impossibility. He admired men for the noble acts they did,more than for a personal acquaintance. It was a source of positive pleasure to him tothink and to talk of brave lives and self-sacrifice.
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,,r* ■■ » BOOKS AND VARIOUS PROJECTS. 89 We have seen that in his early life Rimmcr entered into many schemes whichpromised greater pecuniary returns than the pursuit of art. In 1874 he fancied that alarge public aquarium would not only be a good investment, but serve also a goodeducational purpose; and he accordingly hired rooms on Trcmont Street, and began tofit them up with the necessary appliances. Many people thought that such a place ofentertainment was a public necessity, and could be made to yield a handsome profit.Just beforo the tanks were ready to receive their intended inhabitants, the doctorbecame convinced that the enterprise could not be a success ; and he abandoned it,losing all that he had invested in it, a sum amounting to several thousand dollars. Another form in which his desire for money showed itself was a constant attemptto hit upon some profitable invention. At one time he had made some improvement ina gun-lock; at another, some self-registering plan to de

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