Artist

Ezra Ames

born Framingham, MA 1768-died Albany, NY 1836
Media - portrait_image_28115.jpg - 89876
Self Portrait of Ezra Ames (1786-1836) ca. 1800 Oil on Canvas; 23 3/4 x 30 inches Albany Institute of History & Art Gift of Miss Mary Louisa Sutliff, great-grandniece of the artist x1940.600.27.2
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.