 Sarah Fisher Clampitt is primarily known as Sarah Fisher Clampitt Ames
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Noted for a portrait she sculpted of Abraham Lincoln as well as for
other portrait busts including General Ulysses S. Grant, Sarah Ames was
the first woman sculptor to settle in Rome in the mid-nineteenth
century.
Her marble bust of Abraham Lincoln was placed in the
Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol Building, having been purchased by the
government in 1868. Carving it out of white marble, Ames seems to
have
intended this work as a realistic portraiture of the former
President. It is now on display in the Williams College
Museum of Art, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In excellent
condition, the bust shows Lincoln's head, shoulders, and chest.
The surface of the bust is matte, and the work is approximately 30
inches high and 24 inches wide.
She was born in Lewes, Delaware, studied in Boston and
Rome, and was married to portrait painter Joseph Alexander Ames, who died in 1872.
Sources include:
American Women Artists by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
Who Was Who in American Art by Peter Falk
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