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Birth
1816 (Liverpool, England)
Death
1879 (South Milford, Massachusetts)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts/New York
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mythology, allegorical and portrait sculpture-carved marble
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New York Armory Show of 1913
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A gifted painter and sculptor his reputation faded, largely because his style, which combined Realism*, Luminism* and modified Expressionism*, did not conform to the Neo-Classical* preferences of his era. His sculpture talent was for "original, expressive and anatomically- sophisticated bronzes" (Zellman, 171).
William Rimmer was born in Liverpool, England to a mentally unstable father who thought he was the lost heir to the French throne. The father worked as a cobbler, suppo (showing 500 of 7689 characters). |
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