Sarah Fisher Ames

Sarah Fisher Ames
Born	Sarah Fisher Clampitt 1817 (1817) Lewes, Delaware, USA
Died	1917 (aged 99–100) Washington, D.C., USA

Sarah Fisher Ames (1817–1901) was an American artist, born Sarah Fisher Clampitt in Lewes, Delaware. Ames studied art in Boston and in Rome. She married Joseph Alexander Ames, a portrait painter. She produced at least five busts of Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War, Ames directed the hospital situated in the U.S. Capitol. She was a good friend of Lincoln, either through her position at the hospital or the antislavery movement. Rufus Wilson, author of Lincoln in Portraiture, claimed that Ames knew Lincoln "in an intimate and friendly way" through her work at the hospital.

She died in Washington, D.C., in 1901.

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