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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.84
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
Job and His Comforters
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1865
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/20919

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on board
Dimensions
25 x 30.5 cm (9 13/16 x 12 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. W. Rimmer/1865
  • inscription: backboard, upper right, scratched in: Job and his Comforters / By / W. Rimmer / (CHR)
  • label: backboard, printed : PREPARED MILL-BOARD / WINSOR & NEWTON, ARTISTS’ COLOURMEN / To Her Majesty / AND TO / HIS LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT, / 38, RATHBONE PLACE, LONDON, W. [label inscribed, graphite, top right: 4367
  • inscription: backboard, graphite: Job & his comforters / by / W. Rimmer

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the artist to his daughter, Caroline Hunt Rimmer, probably to her niece, Edith Rimmer Durham Simonds; to Paul Chalfin; to his sister, Mary Anita Ranger; by descent through her family to a private collector; [Skinner, Boston, March 4, 2005 (lot 299)] sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2005

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Daniel A. Pollack, Class of 1960, American Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.84
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • J. Eastman Chase's Gallery, Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by the Late Dr. William Rimmer, on Exhibition and Private Sale, exh. cat. (Boston, 1883), cat. 90
  • William Howe Downes, "The Fine Arts. Dr. Rimmer's Works. Exhibition at Art Museum to Celebrate the One Hundredth Anniversary of His Birthday", Boston Evening Transcript (February 17, 1916), p. 11
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, vol. II, pp. 659-61; vol. V, p. 1561, fig.74, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 418-19, cat. 380, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by the Late Dr. William Rimmer on Exhibition and Private Sale, J. Eastman Chase's Gallery, Boston, 02/01/1883 - 02/28/1883
  • William Rimmer Centennial Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 02/17/1916 - 03/01/1916
  • William Rimmer: 1816-1879, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/05/1946 - 11/27/1946; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/07/1947 - 02/02/1947

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