Mr. Webster's greatest painter :New Hampshire-born artist Joseph Alexander Ames: Historical New Hampshire/ Jourdan Moore Houston and Alan Fraser Houston.
- Title:
- Mr. Webster's greatest painter :New Hampshire-born artist Joseph Alexander Ames: Historical New Hampshire/ Jourdan Moore Houston and Alan Fraser Houston.
- Author:
- Houston, Jourdan Moore,
- Call Number:
- 977.8 N5321h
- Publication Information:
- Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2001.
- Physical Description:
- p. [2] - 19.
- Source:
- Vol. 56, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring & Summer 2001) Historical New Hampshire.
- Description:
- Joseph Alexander Ames (1816-72) was the foremost painter of Daniel Webster. Born in Roxbury, New Hampshire, Ames began drawing at the age of 12. He opened a studio in Boston in 1839 and painted many prominent Bostonians. Ames began painting Webster in 1853, the year Webster died. Despite suffering a stroke after the Civil War, Ames recovered and continued to paint, much of the time in New York, until he suffered another stroke, which killed him, in 1872.
- Language:
- English.
- Subjects:
- Portraits New England.
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