Governor DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828)
Ezra Ames (1768-1836)
Date:
1818
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
51 1/2 H x 39 1/2 W
Credit:
Permanent Deposit by the City of Albany
Accession Number:
1971.12.5
Comments:
DeWitt Clinton was the sixth Governor of New York State from 1817 to 1822 and from 1825 to 1828. This portrait is one of the "portraits of seven governors of New York" the Corporation of the City of Albany commissioned from Ezra Ames in 1831.
