Joseph Alexander Ames

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Portrait of Abraham Lincoln , around 1865

Joseph Alexander Ames (born 1816 in Roxbury , New Hampshire ; died 1872 in New York City ) was an American portrait painter .

life and work

Ames studied in America and later in Rome in Italy. He worked in Boston , Baltimore and later in New York City. In 1869 he became an associate of the National Academy of Design , and a year later he was an academician. In 1855 Ames was a founding member of the Boston Art Club and was elected its first president.

His best known works included "The Death of Webster" and Portrait of Abraham Lincoln and James Topham Brady in the Metropolitan Museum . The picture of a gypsy girl is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c "Ames, Joseph Alexander" entry in Mantle Fielding: Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. Modern Books and Crafts 1926, enlarged version 1974; P. 7; ISBN 0-913274-03-8
  2. ^ A Taste for High Art: Boston and the Boston Art Club, 1855-1950. Antiques & Fine Arts
  3. ^ A Gypsy Girl at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

literature

  • "Ames, Joseph Alexander" Entry in Mantle Fielding: Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. Modern Books and Crafts 1926, enlarged version 1974; P. 7; ISBN 0-913274-03-8

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personal data
SURNAME Ames, Joseph Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Roxbury , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH 1872
Place of death New York City