. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . o it, but simply to illustrate afact or sentiment. He did not recognize the world as we see it: he lived amongcelestial visions. Simmer did recognize it, even if he looked down upon it. The Flight of Night, and The Discoverer, are taken from charcoal-sketches ofpictures painted upon the walls of the Assembly Chamber in the New York StateCapitol at Albany, by the late William M. Hunt. They are the only large picturesor important compositions made by Simmers chief contemporary in Boston. The illustrations from Mi
. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . o it, but simply to illustrate afact or sentiment. He did not recognize the world as we see it: he lived amongcelestial visions. Simmer did recognize it, even if he looked down upon it. The Flight of Night, and The Discoverer, are taken from charcoal-sketches ofpictures painted upon the walls of the Assembly Chamber in the New York StateCapitol at Albany, by the late William M. Hunt. They are the only large picturesor important compositions made by Simmers chief contemporary in Boston. The illustrations from Millet, Blake, and Michael Angclo are selected for thepurpose of comparison. No greater extremes, perhaps, could exist than thosebetween Simmer and Millet. The beauty and power resulting from a sympathywith and a constant intimate study of the human figure is strikingly illustrated bythe sketch of Falling Figures by Michael Angelo. The charm, fulness, and poetryof the illustrations from the Book of Job, by William Blake, can hardly be toowarmly appreciated. CHAPTER XX. R. RIMMER wrote in his diary this singular sentence: I havepractised art all my life to gratify my family, or in gratitude forsome ones friendship. Taken in connection with the events of his life, these words will explain to many the unevenness of his art career, the incompleteness of its success, and will diminish the affectionate remembrance ever given to those artists who have found their chief pleasure under all circumstances in the undeviat- ingly loyal and self-sacrificing pursuit of their art. To others it will add a superior title to human distinction, and a warmerappreciation of him as a man. To them it would absolve him from criticism asan artist, except in the case of his connection with the execution of public first thought it seems an unexpected declaration. If no more sympathetic wish could be expressed in admiration of his geniusthan that he might have known the art souls of anci
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