biografia di Joseph Alexander AMES (1816-1872)

Birth place: Roxbury, MA

Death place: NYC

Profession: Portrait and genre painter

Exhibited: Boston Athenaeum (frequently, from 1845 to his death); Maryland Historical Society (1848-50); NAD (1850, 1869-72); PAFA; Washington Art Association (1859).

Member: N.A., 1870

Comments: Ames may have worked in New Hampshire before establishing a studio in Boston from 1841 to 1847. He traveled to Italy (1848), where he painted a portrait of Pope Pius IX, and on his return worked mainly in Boston but had moved to NYC by 1869. He also painted in Newport, RI, in the 1860s and Baltimore in 1870. His wife, Sarah Fisher Ames, was a sculptor.

Sources: G&W; DAB; N.Y. Evening Post (semi-weekly), Nov. 5, 1872, obit.; Boston BD 1841-42, 1844-47, 1849, 1850-58; Boston CD 1849, 1859-60 and after (in 1859-60 as of Boston and Newport, R.I.); Boston Evening Transcript, Dec. 28, 1848 (cited by Arrington); Cowdrey, NAD; Naylor, NAD; Swan, BA; Rutledge, MHS; Rutledge, PA; Washington Art Assoc. Cat. 1859; Peters, America on Stone; Clement and Hutton; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; 8 Census (1860), Mass., XXVI, 687. More recently, see Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 1: 90.