. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . BOSTONJAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY 1882 Copyright, 1881,By JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. All rights reserved, \ Stereotyped and Printed by Rand, Avery, & Co.,Boston, Mass. But genius itself, whose likeness is terrible and unlovely at first sight to therun of men, filling them with affright and scandal—with wonder and the repel-lent sense, that a new and strange thing is brought into the world! Swinburne. Truth is always in the extremes, — keep them William Blake. Man is a skeleton of which the muscles are the ornament R
. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . BOSTONJAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY 1882 Copyright, 1881,By JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. All rights reserved, \ Stereotyped and Printed by Rand, Avery, & Co.,Boston, Mass. But genius itself, whose likeness is terrible and unlovely at first sight to therun of men, filling them with affright and scandal—with wonder and the repel-lent sense, that a new and strange thing is brought into the world! Swinburne. Truth is always in the extremes, — keep them William Blake. Man is a skeleton of which the muscles are the ornament Rude. R. WILLIAM RIMMER, the subject of the following sketch, waswell known in art circles in Boston for the eighteen years precedinghis death in 1879, as a remarkable lecturer upon art anatomy, a*M skilful delineator of its forms, as the sculptor of several statues andbusts, and as a man who had painted much without establishing a reputation asa painter. For four years, included in this period, he was also known in NewYork as the director of the School of Design for Women at the Cooper Institute. Of his origin nothing whatever was learned, either by his friends or thepublic; and outside of his family-circle little was known of his life or his strug-gles, even by his immediate friends. His plaster statue of The Falling Gladiator, when in 1861 it was firstshown at his house in East Milton, and soon after in Boston, was pronounced aremarkable work, and its author a modern Michael Angelo. But neither thiswork, nor the St. Stephen, which was produced a year earlier, gained at thattime the place
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