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Property from an Important American Collector

William Rimmer

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