ANDRAS, MISS CATHERINE (Brit.). Modeller of Portrait-medallions, in the enamelled paste of the Tassies, of William Pitt, 1807 (adopted as a badge by members of the Pitt Club); — Granville Sharp, Philanthropist, 1734-1813 ; — T. Smith; — Edward Thomas, First Baron Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, 1732-1806; — Two unknown male Portraits; — Thomas Clarkson, Slavery abolitionist, 1760 - 1846, &c. J. M. Gray, in James and William Tassie, Edinburgh, 1894, p. 70, gives the following biographical details of the artist : "Born in Bristol about the year 1775, she began to exhibit her works in the Royal Academy in 1799 (where her name is incorrectly given as Andrews in the Catalogue) by sending a portrait of Mr. Bowyer, and she continued to be an occasional exhibitor till 1824, showing in all twenty-two exhibits. Residing in Pall Mall, London, afterwards in Great Titchfield St., and finally again in Pall Mall, she soon acquired a most aristocratic practice. By 1801 she had been appointed 'Modeller in wax' to Queen Charlotte; and in the same year she received the ' large silver Pallet ' of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, for her ' merit in completing with so much Taste and Judgment two medals in wax, viz., one of H.R. Highness the Princess Charlotte, the other of Lord Nelson'. The close similarity ot technique to the medallions of the elder Tassie which appears in some of her productions, leads me to believe that she may have studied under him, or that she, at least, formed her style upon his works; and the surmise is favoured by the fact that some of the portraits which she modelled in wax were cast by the Tassies in their while enamel paste. “Her exhibited works included portraits of the Princess Charlotte and the Duke of Bedford, 1803 ; the Marquis of Stafford ; Lord Thurlow; and C. J. Fox, 1805 ; William Pitt, 1807; the Marquis of Wellesley and Lord Wellington, 1810; and Marshall Blucher, 1816... Also George III., George IV., James Watt, Wilberforce, Clarkson, Boulton of Birmingham, and Lord Nelson. “Miss Andreas seems also to have practised miniature painting, for an unfinished portrait on china, ana a series of test colours fired on another slab of porcelain, are preserved in a private collection".
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
ABRAHAM, JAKOB
ABRAHAM, JAKOB (Germ.). Bom at Strelitz in 1723, died at Berlin in 1800, Chief-Engraver at the Berlin Mint for a period of over fifty years, acquired renown by gem- as well as by coin-engraving. The Imperial Collection at Vienna owns a fine cornelian cut by him, with a beautiful and remarkable head of Maria-Theresia. One of his best known medals is that commemorating the Death ot Frederick the Great, in 1786; in the Swiss series, that of Daniel Bernouilli, the great mathematician of Basle, is on...
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ABRAHAM, JAKOB (Germ.). Bom at Strelitz in 1723, died at Berlin in 1800, Chief-Engraver at the Berlin Mint for a period of over fifty years, acquired renown by gem- as well as by coin-engraving. The Imperial Collection at Vienna owns a fine cornelian cut by him, with a beautiful and remarkable head of Maria-Theresia. One of his best known medals is that commemorating the Death ot Frederick the Great, in 1786; in the Swiss series, that of Daniel Bernouilli, the great mathematician of Basle, is on...
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ABRAMSON
ABRAMSON or ABRAHAMSON, ABRAHAM (Germ.). Son of the preceding, was born at Postdam in 1754, and died in 1811 . He learned the elements of the art of medal-engraving from his father. His medals previous to 1788 are mostly copies and seldom original in design, but having studied sculpture and modelling during a prolonged stay of four years in Italy-, his later works are more artistic and of his own design and execution. He belonged to the Academy of Arts of Berlin, and numerous other societies. Dr...
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ABRAMSON or ABRAHAMSON, ABRAHAM (Germ.). Son of the preceding, was born at Postdam in 1754, and died in 1811 . He learned the elements of the art of medal-engraving from his father. His medals previous to 1788 are mostly copies and seldom original in design, but having studied sculpture and modelling during a prolonged stay of four years in Italy-, his later works are more artistic and of his own design and execution. He belonged to the Academy of Arts of Berlin, and numerous other societies. Dr...
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ADAMS, GEORGE GAMMON
ADAMS, GEORGE GAMMON (Brit.). British Sculptor and Medallist, born at Staines, on the 21st of April 1821 ; died at his residence, Acton Green Lodge, Chiswick, on the 4th of March 1898, aged 76 years, and was buried in the family vault in Staines Cemetery. He was educated at Kepler House School, and at sixteen, was articled by his father to William Wyon, R. A. in the Royal Mint, where he remained for 4 1/2 years, and was employed upon the early coinage of Queen Victoria. It was Adams who cut the...
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ADAMS, GEORGE GAMMON (Brit.). British Sculptor and Medallist, born at Staines, on the 21st of April 1821 ; died at his residence, Acton Green Lodge, Chiswick, on the 4th of March 1898, aged 76 years, and was buried in the family vault in Staines Cemetery. He was educated at Kepler House School, and at sixteen, was articled by his father to William Wyon, R. A. in the Royal Mint, where he remained for 4 1/2 years, and was employed upon the early coinage of Queen Victoria. It was Adams who cut the...
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ADMON
ADMON (?) Fictitious name of a Greek Artist, which appears on several gems, probably dating from the last century. Among these we may mention the famous Hercules Bibax, sard (Marlborough cabinet); — Hercules, aged head, signed A? (Gori); — Hercules Musagetes (Poniatowsky) ; — Alexander, as Hercules; — Hercules reposing (Cades); — Augustus : cameo (De la Turbie) ; — Head of Ammon : sard (Cades) ; — Vulcan offering arms to a youth seated beside a veiled female (probably by Natter), &c. Bibliograph...
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ADMON (?) Fictitious name of a Greek Artist, which appears on several gems, probably dating from the last century. Among these we may mention the famous Hercules Bibax, sard (Marlborough cabinet); — Hercules, aged head, signed A? (Gori); — Hercules Musagetes (Poniatowsky) ; — Alexander, as Hercules; — Hercules reposing (Cades); — Augustus : cameo (De la Turbie) ; — Head of Ammon : sard (Cades) ; — Vulcan offering arms to a youth seated beside a veiled female (probably by Natter), &c. Bibliograph...
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