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1819 Charleston, Massachusetts - 1911 Montclair, New Jersey. Known for: Portrait marble sculpture, miniature painting.
The following biography is from Greta Elena Couper, the great great-granddaughter of sculptor Thomas Ball. She is a writer and educator in Los Angeles, California, and concentrates her research on... Read full biography
The following biography is from Greta Elena Couper, the great great-granddaughter of sculptor Thomas Ball. She is a writer and educator in Los Angeles, California, and concentrates her research on 19th-century art history and the psychology of travel. Thomas Ball, Boston sculptor, was a member of... Read full biography
The following biography is from Greta Elena Couper, the great great-granddaughter of sculptor Thomas Ball. She is a writer and educator in Los Angeles, California, and concentrates her research on 19th-century art history and the psychology of travel. Thomas Ball, Boston sculptor, was a member of the more than one hundred expatriate artists living in Italy in the nineteenth century. He worked in the realistic style and was most successful in marble sculpture and heroic bronze statues, but was... Read full biography
The following biography is from Greta Elena Couper, the great great-granddaughter of sculptor Thomas Ball. She is a writer and educator in Los Angeles, California, and concentrates her research on 19th-century art history and the psychology of travel. Thomas Ball, Boston sculptor, was a member of the more than one hundred expatriate artists living in Italy in the nineteenth century. He worked in the realistic style and was most successful in marble sculpture and heroic bronze statues, but was also accomplished as a portrait painter and musician. His best known monuments are the equestrian George Washington in the Boston Public Garden, the heroic statue Daniel Webster in New York's Central Park, and the Lincoln Emancipation Group in Boston... Read full biography
The following biography is from Greta Elena Couper, the great great-granddaughter of sculptor Thomas Ball. She is a writer and educator in Los Angeles, California, and concentrates her research on 19th-century art history and the psychology of travel. Thomas Ball, Boston sculptor, was a member of the more than one hundred expatriate artists living in Italy in the nineteenth century. He worked in the realistic style and was most successful in marble sculpture and heroic bronze statues, but was also accomplished as a portrait painter and musician. His best known monuments are the equestrian George Washington in the Boston Public Garden, the heroic statue Daniel Webster in New York's Central Park, and the Lincoln Emancipation Group in Boston and Washington, D.C. Born in Charleston, Massachusetts, June 3, 1819, Thomas was the son of a house and sign painter and the youngest of... Read full biography
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Keywords (43)
Art Method
- •Direct Carver, Hand Carving
- •Miniature Art
- •Miniature, Small Scale Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
- •Sign Painting/ Sign Design
- •Silhouettist
Art Style
- •Classical Realist
- •Neo Classical, Neo Classicism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •George Washington
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portrait Bust Sculpture
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Silhouettes, Silhouette Portraiture
- •Statue Sculpture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Central Park, New York City
- •Expatriate from USA or Canada
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Sculptor in Rome and/or Florence, Italy, 19th Century
Art Association
- •Apollo Association
- •Boston Artists Asssociation
- •National Sculpture Society
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Marine Before 1900
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Portrait Miniatures
- •Yankee Stonecutter
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Apollo Association-
- •National Sculpture Society-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Boston Athenaeum