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Ezra Ames was born on May 5, 1768 in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States; the youngest of six children. His father, Jesse Eames, a farmer, was the fifth son and tenth child of Henry Emes and Ruth (Newton) Emes of Framingham, Massachussets; his mother, who died on February 14, 1776, was Bettey Bent, also of Framingham. During his childhood the family moved to a farm at Staatsburg, New York.
Ames was an artist of slender education but remarkable talent.
Ames left home at an early age and returned to Massachusetts, where in 1790 he became a furniture and carriage painter in Worcester. By this time he was already painting miniatures. Between the years 1790 and 1798 he recorded the sale of twenty-five miniatures, none of which has been located, although one was of so important a person as Governor Clinton of New York.
In 1795 he settled permanently in Albany, New York. Besides his work as a carriage painter and miniaturist during these years, Ezra Ames gilded frames, painted furniture, lettered clock faces, decorated flags; and, during 1797-1798 engraved spoons, rings, and Masonic emblems. He first emerged as a painter in oils with the portrait of a Mr. Glen for which he received four pounds sterling on February 22, 1794.
The portrait by which he gained the widest reputation was not done until 1812: a full length painting of Governor Clinton, which was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in that year and a replica of which was ordered by the State of New York the following year. Ames also painted a bust portrait of Clinton, which was engraved by Maverick.
A bust portrait of Alexander Hamilton, engraved by Leney and by Hoogland, is now lost. Besides these, Ames painted portraits of Solomon Allen, engraved by Tanner and by Jones; Clarkson Crolius, Charles Genet and Leonard Gansevoort, the last three owned by the Albany Institute; General William Irvine, which is now lost but can be identified by the copy at the New York Historical Society.
Ames ministered to the aesthetic needs of his generation in nearly every field from the painting of carriages to the portraiture of statesmen. He is best known as the New York State portrait painter, as many of his portraits were of New York politicians including Vice President George Clinton and Governor Dewitt Clinton.
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Ames was an active freemason, which brought him a number of commissions from his fellows. He served as chairman of the Fine Arts Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts in 1805, and was also President of the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank of Albany. He was posthumously elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York City.
On October 6, 1794, Ames was married to Zipporah Wood, the daughter of Joseph Wood of Upton, Massachussets. The couple had three children.
