Sarah Fisher Ames

Sarah Fisher Ames
Born Sarah Fisher Clampitt
1817 (1817)
Lewes, Delaware, USA
Died 1901 (aged 83–84)
Washington, D.C., USA

Sarah Fisher Ames (1817–1901) was an American artist, born Sarah Fisher Clampitt in Lewes, Delaware. Ames studied art in Boston and in Rome. She married Joseph Alexander Ames, a portrait painter. She produced at least five busts of Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War, Ames directed the hospital situated in the U.S. Capitol. She was a good friend of Lincoln, either through her position at the hospital or the antislavery movement. Rufus Wilson, author of Lincoln in Portraiture, claimed that Ames knew Lincoln "in an intimate and friendly way" through her work at the hospital. [1]

She died in Washington, D.C., in 1901. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Lincoln in Portraiture (New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1935), 179.
  2. ↑ "U.S. Senate: Abraham Lincoln". www.senate.gov. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
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