Painting - Young Boy with Bat and Ball

William James Hubbard (1807-1862). British born artist who worked in England and the US in the 19th. Century. He specialised in silhouette and painted portraits. He arrived in the US in 1824. In 1825-26 he worked in Boston, Massachusetts, setting up an exhibition known as the "Hubbard Gallery". He worked in a great variety of pictures including likenesses, groups of animals, landscape scenery, caricatures etc. all cut with a simple pair of scissors, without the aid of any machinery whatsoever, and which at a hasty glance looked like painting. He later moved to Richmond, Virginia where he married. On 14th. January, 1853 he was given exclusive licence by the Virginia General Assembly to make bronze copies of the marble statue of George Washington making a total of six in all. In February, 1862 he was killed in an accidental explosion while making munitions in Richmond for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. His works are in the collections of the Historic New England Gallery and the Smithsonian.