- Ezra Ames
Infobox Person
name = Ezra Ames
caption =
birth_date = 5 May 1768
birth_place = Framingham, MA
death_date = 23 February, 1836
death_place = Albany
other_names =
known_for = Prominent portrait painter and artist
occupation = Painter
nationality = American Ezra Ames (May 5 ,1768 -February 23 ,1836 ) was a popularportrait painter inAlbany, New York during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. More than 700 portraits have been attributed to him.He was born in
Framingham, Massachusetts in 1768. He moved toWorcester, Massachusetts , in 1790, and married Zipporah Wood in 1794.Ames painted a number of
still life s,landscape s, and history paintings, and was skilled at engraving. The "Chautauqan Magazine" describes his importance in this way; "(he) was the most noted portraitist in the state, outside New York city. The sure and fluent ease of his brush, his keen characterization, his pure, fresh coloring, are all remarkable for this early period. His portrait of Governor George Clinton, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1812, won him wide notice; but he did delightful work some years earlier, and many even finer canvases are scattered through the middle states, in private hands." [cite book
last = Koren
first = John
title = The Chautauquan v 49
publisher = The Chautauqua press
location = Boston
date = 1909
pages = 82
URL =http://books.google.com/books?id=wXYAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82&dq=%22ezra+ames%22&as_brr=1]He died in 1836 and is buried at the
Albany Rural Cemetery (Lot 1 Section 59).Paintings by Ezra Ames
Joseph Brant 
Simeon De Witt 
Gideon Granger 
Solomon Townsend References
*"Who Was Who in America: Historical Volume, 1607-1896." Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1963.ources
* [http://www.albanyinstitute.org/collections/Painting/ames.htm Albany Institute of History and Art article]
* [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/a/ea.html New York State Museum article]
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