Artist

Daniel F. Ames

Portrait of Daniel F. Ames
Portrait of Daniel F. Ames

American

Daniel F. Ames is an American Romanticism painter. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors.

An American painter of tiny ivory portraits, Daniel F. Ames worked in watercolor between 1840 and 1845. Two surviving miniatures show a woman against a plain background, her dress and features in delicate strokes. Such fragile discs were often kept in lockets or brooches. Swipe in for a closer look at Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1845.

Works by Daniel F. Ames

Collections represented

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