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William Rimmer - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | WILLIAM RIMMER (1816-1879), an American artist, was born in Liverpool, England, on the 20th of February 1816. |
 | | He was the son of a French refugee, who emigrated to Nova Scotia, where he was joined by his wife and child in 1818, and who in 1826 removed to Boston, where he earned a living as a shoe-maker. |
 | | powerful, wonderful, but not alluring." Rimmer's sculptures, except those mentioned and "The Fighting Lions" (now in the Boston Art Club), "A Dying Centaur" (in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts), and a statue of Alexander Hamilton (made in 1865 for the city of Boston), were soon destroyed. |
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