Hughes, Ball
sculptor, was born Jan. 19, 1806, in England. The life-size monumental high-relief of Bishop Hobart of New York, now in the vestry of Trinity church, New York city, was made by him.
Among his later works are a model of an equestrian statue of Washington, intended for the city of Philadelphia, a Crucifixion, a statue in bronze of Nathaniel Bowditch that is now in Mount Auburn cemetery, a statuette of General Joseph Warren, a bust of Washington Irving, and a Mary Magdalen. He. died March 5, 1868, in Boston, Mass.