. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . 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 co
. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . 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 ,,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 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 m
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