Artist
Ezra Ames
born Framingham, MA 1768-died Albany, NY 1836
- Born
- Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
- Died
- Albany, New York, United States
- Nationalities
- American
- Biography
Ezra Ames began his career as a carriage painter, and broadened his skills to include engraving and painting miniatures. His popularity as a portraitist is measured by the reputations of his sitters, who included Governor Clinton of New York, Stephen van Rensselaer, and Gouverneur Morris of New Jersey. In Albany he painted more than four hundred and fifty portraits of New York politicians and leaders.