Ball Hughes, an American sculptor, born in London, England, Jan. 19, 1804, died in Boston, Mass., March 5, 1868. When only 12 years old he made out of wax candle ends a bass-relief copy of a picture representing the wisdom of Solomon, which was afterward cast in silver. He spent seven years in the studio of Edward Hodges Bailey, and competed successfully for the prizes awarded by the royal academy and the society of arts and sciences. Among his works at this period, besides several ideal statues, were busts of George IV. and the dukes of Sussex, York, and Cambridge. In 1829 he emigrated to New York, where he executed a marble statue of Hamilton, which was destroyed in the merchants' exchange, in the great fire of 1835. He also made a monumental alto-relief, of life size, in memory of Bishop Hobart, which is now in Trinity church. Several of his casts are in the Boston athenaeum, and his bronze statue of Nathaniel Bow-ditch is in Mt. Auburn cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. He also appeared as a lecturer on art.