Caroline Hunt Rimmer (October 10, 1851RIMMER, Caroline Hunt
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–1918) was an American illustrator, sculptor and teacher. She was active in Belmont and

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Caroline Hunt Rimmer was born in 1851 in

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, the daughter of Mary H. C. Rimmer and

William Rimmer William Rimmer (20 February 181620 August 1879) was an American artist born in Liverpool, England. Biography William Rimmer was the son of a French refugee, who emigrated to Nova Scotia, where he was joined by his wife and child in 1818, and ...

. She studied art with her father. She wrote ''Figure Drawing for Children'', originally published in 1893, republished as recently as 2013. Rimmer's sculpture, ''Mermaid'' is in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts collection. She died in Boston, Massachusetts.

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