John Ames
John Ames (fl. 1777 - 1792) was a Bristol-based printmaker. He produced a number of portraits including those of the Methodist ministers, James Rouquet and John Henderson as well as the Quaker doctor, John Till Adams.
John Ames
Ebenezer Sibly [1751-1800] Derivative work: MagentaGreen · alamy.com · Public domain
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William Young Ottley, who only had a copy of the Rouquet portrait, suggests he may have been an amateur. He also produced a number of engravings for Ebenezer Sibly, a protégé of Till Adams. • Illustration — John Dee and Edward Kelley, from a drawing by Ebenezer Sibly, 1790
John Ames is a printmaker.
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- 1.British Museum. John Ames (Biographical details).
- 2.Oxford University Press. Ames, J. 2011. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00004024.
- 3.Ottley, William Young. Notices of engravers, and their works, being the commencement of a new dictionary, which it is not intended to continue, containing some account of upwards of three hundred masters, with more complete catalogues of several of the more eminent than have yet appeared, and numerous original notices of the performances of other artists hitherto little known. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green. 1831.
- 4.Sommers, Susan Mitchell. The Siblys of London: A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England. Oxford University Press. 2018. 9780190687328.
- 5.Monod, Paul Kléber. Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenmen. Yale University Press. 2013.
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