About Sarah Fisher Ames
Lived 1817 – 1901 (aged 83). Sarah Fisher Ames was an American artist and sculptor.
Sarah Fisher Ames (1817–1901) was an American sculptor, best known for a bust of Abraham Lincoln that she produced in 1866.
Biography Sarah Fisher Clampitt was born on 13 August 1817 in Lewes, Delaware. She studied art in Boston and in Rome, and married Joseph Alexander Ames, a portrait painter, in 1845. The couple spent time in Rome, where Sarah Ames studied Italian sculpture. Little else is known about her early life. and at least five busts of Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War, Ames worked as a volunteer nurse,
She died in Washington, D.C., on 8 March 1901.
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American sculptor (1817–1901)
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Sarah Fisher Ames was born on 13 August 1817 in Lewes.
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Sarah Fisher Ames died on 8 March 1901 in Washington, D.C..
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Sarah Fisher Ames was an artist and sculptor.
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Sarah Fisher Ames was American.
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