BALL, THOMAS (1819-1911) American sculptor, was born at Charlestown (Mass.) on June 3, 1819. After starting, self-taught, as a portrait-painter he turned his attention in 1851 to sculpture, his earliest work being a bust of Jenny Lind. At 35 he went to Florence for study. There, with an interval of work in Boston (Mass.) (1857-65) he remained until 1897, when he returned to America and lived in Montclair (N.J.) with a studio in New York city. His work includes many early cabinet busts of musicians (he was an accomplished musician himself, and was the first in America to sing Elijah). The equestrian statue of Washington in the Boston public gardens is probably his best work. Josiah Quincy in City Hall square, Boston; Charles Sum ner in the public gardens of Boston ; Daniel Webster in Central park, New York city; the Lincoln Emancipation group at Wash ington ; Edwin Forrest as "Coriolanus," in the Actors' home, Philadelphia, and the Washington monument in Methuen (Mass.) are other examples which have had a marked influence on monu mental art in the United States and especially in New England. In 1891 he published an autobiographical volume, My Three Score Years and Ten. He died at Montclair on Dec. 11, 1911.