American Artist: Ezra Ames

Portrait miniature by Ezra Ames of Miss Mary Magdalene Powell (1795-1864; later Mrs. George Hoag Campbell)

Miss Mary Magdalene Powell (1795-1864; later
Mrs. George Hoag Campbell), of Albany, New York

American
circa 1815-1820
by Ezra Ames (1768-1836)

2 x 2 5/8 inches (sight)

watercolor on ivory; housed under glass in a later (ca. 1860)
octagonal thermoplastic union case by S. Peck & Co.
(Samuel Peck, 1813-1879, New Haven, Connecticut)