page_title: Thomas Ball (artist)
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Ball (artist) / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: George Washington statue by Thomas Ball (June 3, 1819 – December 11, 1911), in the Boston Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
context_page_description: Thomas Ball was an American sculptor and musician. His work has had a marked influence on monumental art in the United States, especially in New England.
context_section_description: Bust of Jenny Lind (plaster, 1851), New York Historical Society, New York City.
  Bust of Daniel Webster (bronze), Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
  Statuette of Daniel Webster (bronze, 1853).
  Four bas-relief panels (bronze, 1856), on base of Richard Saltonstall Greenough's Benjamin Franklin statue, Old City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Statuette of Henry Clay (bronze, 1858), U.S. Senate Art Collection, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
  Daniel Webster (bronze, 1860–1868), Central Park, New York City.
  Equestrian Statue of George Washington (bronze, 1864), Boston Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts.
  The model for this statue is held by the Boston Athenaeum
  Bust of Edward Everett (marble, 1867), Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Edwin Forrest as "Coriolanus" (marble, 1867), Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  Josiah Quincy (bronze, 1869), Old City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.
  John Albion Andrew (marble, 1870), Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts.
  "The Angel of Death Lifting the Veil from the Eyes of Faith" (Jonas Chickering Monument) (marble, 1872), Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  Saint John the Evangelist (marble, 1875), Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts. Replaced by a polymer replica, 2001.
  Copies of this are in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; and the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey.
  Emancipation Memorial (bronze, 1875), Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.
  A copy of this is in Park Square, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Charles Sumner (bronze, 1878), Boston Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Daniel Webster (bronze, 1885–86), New Hampshire State House, Concord, New Hampshire. The commission was first given to sculptor Martin Milmore, then to his brother. Ball took it over following the deaths of both Milmores. This has a different pose from his earlier Webster statues.
  P. T. Barnum (bronze, 1887), Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
caption: George Washington (1864), The Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts.
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