Statue of Alexander Hamilton - Art life of William Rimmer

Identifier: artwilliam00bart (find matches)
Title: Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett.
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Bartlett, Truman Howe
Subjects: American Painting
Publisher: James R. Osgood and Co.
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO



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for four nude statues, three of them larger than life. These were theFalling Gladiator, the Chaldean Shepherd, Endymion, and the Osiris. The Shepherd and Endymion were modelled in East Milton, exhibited at theBoston Athenaeum, and destroyed soon after. Photographs of them are too muchfaded for reproduction. The former was severely criticised at the time of itsexhibition. The Osiris was made in Chelsea, immediately after the completion ofthe Hamilton, in seven days; the sculptor, contrary to his custom, employing aliving model, though for a few hours only, and simply for reference in completingthe statue. It was designed to illustrate a different style of sculpture from thatof the Gladiator, and one that the artist believed to be the highest, — a figure inrepose. There were two heads to this figure, one a human, and the other thatof a hawk, either one to be put on or taken off at pleasure. It was the doctorsfavorite statue. The legs he especially admired. He preferred the hawk to the
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