| Ames, Frederick L. (Frederick Lothrop), 1835-1893 | ||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||||||||
| dates | 1835-1893 | |||||||||||||||
| city | Boston | |||||||||||||||
| state | MA | |||||||||||||||
| other cities | North Easton, MA; | |||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||
| history |
Frederick Lathrop Ames was a Boston art collector, railroad, real estate, and banking investor. Ames’ art collection consisted of paintings, porcelains, jades, crystals, objects of art. The collection include work by, among others, Delacroix, Dupre, Diaz, Corot, Courbet, La Farge, Rousseau, Troyon, Millet, Decamps, and Daubigny. In 1894, Ames’ widow, nee Rebecca Caroline Blair, gave the Boston Museum of Fine Art works of art from his collection including Troyon’s “Pointer Dog,” and Eugene Fromentin’s Tiger Hunt. An active member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (member of finance committee and served as Vice-President) Ames also collected orchids. |
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| decades | 1860-1870 1870-1880 1880-1890 |
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| updated | 02/14/2025 10:12:24 | |||||||||||||||
| research links |
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