
Property from an Important American Collector
Battle of the Amazons
Auction Closed
May 22, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important American Collector
William Rimmer
1816 - 1879
Battle of the Amazons
oil on canvas
14 ¼ by 18 ⅛ in.; 36.2 by 46 cm.
Caroline Hunt Rimmer, Boston (acquired by descent from the artist)
Louise H. Williams (acquired from the above in 1881)
Dr. G. G. Sears, Boston (acquired by 1916)
Mr and Mrs. William J. Gunn, Newtonville, Massachusetts (acquired by 1946)
Richard S. Nutt, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the estate of the above in 1958)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above in 1981 by the present owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February - March 1916
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, William Rimmer, 1816-1879, November 1946 - February 1947, no. 21, n.p.
Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston Painters 1720-1940, March 1968, no. 66, p. 36
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, American Art from Alumni Collections, April - June 1968, no. 119, pp. 169-70
Massachusetts, Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial; The Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, The Brooklyn Museum, William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, October 1985 - July 1986, no. 35, pp. 74-75, illustrated in color
Truman H. Bartlett, The Art Life of William Rimmer: Sculptor, Painter, and Physician, Boston, 1882, no. 52, pp. 120, illustrated, and 127
Jeffrey Weidman, William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné, Ph.D. dissertation, vol. II., Bloomington, Indiana University, 1981, no. 115, pp. 677-82
Executed circa 1875
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