 Sarah Fisher Clampitt is primarily known as Sarah Fisher Clampitt Ames
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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
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