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. Thomas Balls' son-in-law was sculptor William Couper.
 

     
       
                            State House in winter                            16 Hancock Street, Beacon Hill (Ball's House)

 
Bunker Hill lies to the northward of Breed’s Hill, toward Charles town Neck, where the Elevated line ends. Its summit, higher than Breed’s Hill, is occupied by “Charlestown Heights,” overlooking the Mystic River, one of the most attractive of the Boston City Parks System. On Walker Street, on this hill, a short street extending from Main up to Wall Street, is still standing the house where Thomas Ball, the sculptor, was born.

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