John Ames (printmaker)

John Ames (fl.

1777 - 1792) was a Bristol-based printmaker.

[1] 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.

[2] William Young Ottley, who only had a copy of the Rouquet portrait, suggests he may have been an amateur.

[3] He also produced a number of engravings for Ebenezer Sibly,[4] a protégé of Till Adams.