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Thomas Ball (artist)

Thomas Ball (June 3, 1819 – December 11, 1911) was an American sculptor and musician. His work has had a marked influence on monumental art in the United States, especially in New England.

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Thomas Ball

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Bust of (plaster, 1851), New York Historical Society, New York City.

Jenny Lind

Bust of Daniel Webster (bronze), , Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Hood Museum of Art

Statuette of (bronze, 1853).

Daniel Webster

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Benjamin Franklin, Printer (1856), Old City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.

Benjamin Franklin, Printer (1856), Old City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.

Edward Everett (1867), Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts.

Edward Everett (1867), Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts.

Josiah Quincy (1869), Old City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.

Josiah Quincy (1869), Old City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.

Jonas Chickering Monument (1872), Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jonas Chickering Monument (1872), Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Love's Memories (1873), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.

Love's Memories (1873), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.

Saint John the Evangelist (1875), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Saint John the Evangelist (1875), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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Four bas-relief panels (bronze, 1856), on base of 's Benjamin Franklin statue, Old City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.

Richard Saltonstall Greenough

Statuette of (bronze, 1858), U.S. Senate Art Collection, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.[16]

Henry Clay

(bronze, 1860–1868), Central Park, New York City.

Daniel Webster

Equestrian Statue of George Washington

Boston Athenaeum

Bust of (marble, 1867), Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts.

Edward Everett

as "Coriolanus" (marble, 1867), Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[13][18]

Edwin Forrest

(bronze, 1869), Old City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.[19]

Josiah Quincy

(marble, 1870), Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts.[20][21]

John Albion Andrew

"The Angel of Death Lifting the Veil from the Eyes of Faith" ( Monument) (marble, 1872), Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4]

Jonas Chickering

Saint John the Evangelist

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Emancipation Memorial

(bronze, 1878), Boston Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts.

Charles Sumner

Daniel Webster (bronze, 1885–86), , Concord, New Hampshire.[22] The commission was first given to sculptor Martin Milmore, then to his brother. Ball took it over following the deaths of both Milmores.[23] This poses differently from his earlier Webster statues.

New Hampshire State House

(bronze, 1887), Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut.[24][25]

P. T. Barnum

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Emancipation Memorial (1875), Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.

Emancipation Memorial (1875), Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ball, Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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Taft, History of American Sculpture (New York, 1903)

Nash, Edwin G., "Ball, Thomas" in Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 1 (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928)

Thomas Ball, My Threescore Years And Ten: An Autobiography (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891)

Thomas Ball, My Fourscore Years (Los Angeles: Trecavalli Press, 1993)

http://www.wingedsun.com/books/ball.htm

at Smithsonian Institution Research Information System.

Thomas Ball

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(1819-06-03)June 3, 1819

December 11, 1911(1911-12-11) (aged 92)

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