Biografia

• Born in London, England. Studied under Edward Hodges Bailey. Married. Emigrated to the United States about 1828. Lived in New York; moved to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1851.

  His marble statue of Alexander Hamilton (1835) may have been the first marble portrait executed in the United States. His bronze of Nathaniel Bowditch (1847) was the first bronze cast in the U.S.

  Hughes redesigned Gobrecht's Seated Liberty design for 1840. He added the ribbon with "In God We Trust" to the reverse of the Seated Liberty design for 1868.

  He died in Boston.

  bio: DAB, Drake, NCAB 24, NYHSD, WWA-H

Data de nascimento

• 1806-01-19

Local de nascimento

• London, England

Data da morte

• 1868-03-05

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