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BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 263 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALL, See also:THOMAS (1819- ) , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Charlestown, See also:Massachusetts, on the 3rd of See also:June 1819. He was the son of a See also:house-and-sign-painter, and after starting, self-taught, as a portrait painter he turned his See also:attention in 1851 to See also:sculpture, his earliest See also:work being a bust of Jenny See also:Lind. At See also:thirty-five he went to See also:Florence for study; there, with an See also:interval of work in See also:Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857-1865, he remained for more than thirty years, being one of the See also:artistic See also:colony which included the Brownings and Hiram See also:Powers. He returned to See also:America in 1897, and lived in See also:Montclair, New See also:Jersey, with a studio in New See also:York See also:City. His work includes many See also:early See also:cabinet busts of musicians (he was an accomplished musician himself, and was the first in America to sing " See also:Elijah "), and later the equestrian statue of See also:Washington in the Boston public gardens, probably his best work; See also:Josiah See also:Quincy in City See also:Hall Square, Boston; See also:Charles See also:Sumner in the public gardens of Boston; See also:Daniel See also:Webster in Central See also:Park, New York City; the See also:Lincoln Emancipation See also:group at Washington; See also:Edwin See also:Forrest as " See also:Coriolanus," in the Actors' See also:Home, See also:Philadelphia, and the Washington See also:monument in See also:Methuen, Massachusetts. His work has had a marked See also:influence on monumental See also:art in the See also:United States and especially in New See also:England. In 1891 he published an auto-See also:biographical See also:volume, My Three See also:Score Years and Ten.

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