BORREL, VALENTIN MAURICE (French). Born, 24. July 1804, died 29. March 1882. At the age of twelve, he was apprenticed to the medallist J. J. Barre, who was then Engraver-general at the French Mint. He was 24 years old when he engraved his first portrait, that of the actor Picard ; this was followed by others of Andrieux, Alexandre Duval, Yon Barré, Népomucéne Lemercier, and Mme Duval. Three years later, the young artist received an appointment at the Monaco Mint under Honoré V. From that date, he began engraving official medals, and was entrusted with the execution of portrait pieces of the King Louis Philippe, and Princes and Princesses of the House of Orléans. His best works as a medallist date from 1840 to 1860. Of especial interest to English collectors are his medals commemorating the Visit of Queen Victoria to Belgium, 1843, and to France, same year (exhibited at the Salon of 1844); — Daniel O'Connell ; — Capture of the fortress of Bomarsund by the Baltic fleet in 1854; — Battles of Alma, Inkermann, 1854, and Tchernaya, 1855 ; — Visit of the French National Guard to London, 1848; — Return visit of Englishmen to Paris, 1849. The following list of V. M. Borrel's medals is given by Mazerolle : 1832. L. B. Picard, Member of the French Academy ; — P. Yon-Barré, Founder of the Vaudeville Theatre ; — 1833. N. L. Lemercier, Dramatic author; — E. Scribe; — 1834. Mme Dorval ; — 1835. Fieschi's Attempt on the life of Charles X.; — 1838. Birth of the Comte de Paris; — Monumental Tables of Laws for the departments; — 1839. Passage of the Iron Gates by the Duke of Orleans; — 1840. Birth of the Due de Chartres ; — The Duke and Duchess of Orleans, the Comte de Paris and Due de Chartres ; — The Duke of Reichstadt ; — Battle of Mazagran ; — Battle of Isly ; — Homage to Napoleon I. ; — Napoleon's ashes brought to Paris (2 types); — Inauguration ot the Hospital of Meaux ; — 1841. The Ashes of Napoleon I. brought to the Invalides (2 var.); — Baptism of the Comte de Paris ; — The Duchess ot Orleans and her children (2 var.); — The Duc de Nemours, Duc de Chartres and Comte de Paris ; — The Duc de Blacas; — 1842. Death of the Duke of Orleans (2 types) ; — The Ashes of the Duke of Orleans brought to Dreux ; — Inauguration of a statue to the Duke of Orleans in Paris ; — The Due de Nemours and Comte de Paris ; — A. Bouvard, Astronomer; — Em. Théaulon; — 1843. Inauguration of the Railway from Paris to Orleans; — Queen Victoria; — Visit of Queen Victoria to King Leopold of Belgium; — R. J. Hauy, A. L. de Jussieu and G. Cuvier; — 1844. Inauguration of the Chapel of St. Ferdinand ; — Bombardment of Tangiers; — Bombardment of Tangiers and Mogador; — Capture of Mogador; — Visit of Louis Philippe I. to Queen Victoria ; — Francois Guizot; — Marquis de Larochejaquelein, Deputy of Morbihan ; — Daniel O'Connell; — 1845. Inauguration of the Railway from Paris to Rouen; — S. Andrieux ; — A. Mickiewicz, J. Michelet and Edgar Quinet ; — 1846. New Buildings for the "Timbre "; — Inauguration of the Northern Railway of France ; — Marriage of the Duke of Montpensier ; — Pius IX.; — Dr J. Coster; — 1847. Submission of Abd-el-Kader; — The Column of the Grande Armée erected at Boulogne;- — Cornell des Prud'hommes, Paris; — Jubilee of Pope Pius IX. ; — The Comtesse de Chambord ; — Charles Marie de l'Epée ; — Mlle Mars; — 1848. The French Republic; — Proclamation of the Republic; — The Republic of 1848; — Banquet to Citizen Lecoq (2 var.); — Homage to the Garde Nationale; — The National Guard of Arras; — The National Guard of St. Omer ; — Visit of the Paris National Guards to England (2 var.); — Proclamation of the Constitution of 1848 ; — The Chamber of Commerce of Montpellier ; — Death of Mgr Affre, Archbishop of Paris ; — Alphonse de Lamartine (2 var.) ; — 1849. The French Republic ; — Visit of the English National Guards to France; — The Tribunal of Commerce of the Seine (2 var.) ; — L. Crespel de Latouche; — E. de Genoude; — Emile de Girardin ; — 1850. Death of Louis Philippe I. ; — Death of the Queen of the Belgians; — E. de Girardin, Deputy; — Victor Hugo; — General Oudinot; Expedition to Rome (obv. illustrated) ; — 1851. Project of Law for the Proclamation of the Empire ; — The Decree of the 2. December 1851 ; — Election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the French Republic ; — L. Kossuth ; — Distribution of Flags to the Army ; — Banquet and Ball offered by the Army to Louis- Napoleon Bonaparte; — Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's visit to the South of France ; — Napoleon I. and Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte ; — Re-establishment of the Empire ; — Proclamation of Napoleon III. ; — Napoleon lll. enters Paris ; — Napoleon I. and Napoleon III. ; — The Senate and Legislative Body ; — The Sheffield School of Art (Bust of J. Montgomery) ; — Denis Papin ; — 1853. Napoleon III. and the Empress Eugenie ; — Marriage of the Empress Eugénie (2 var.); — 1854. Victory of Alma; — The Comédic-Francaise; — F. Quétand, Advocate; — 1855. Victory of Inkermann; — Capture of Bomarsund ; — Visit of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort to Napoleon III. ; — Taking of Sebastopol ; — Taking of Kinburn; — The Universal Exhibition of 1855; — Vicomte de Rouville ; — Marshal Saint-Arnaud ; — 1856. Birth of the Prince Imperial ; — Napoleon III. reviews Troops on the occasion of the Congress of Paris; — P. A. Bourdaloue; — 1857. Meyerbeer; — 1858. The Chamber of Commerce of Nancy; — A. D. Lourmand ; — Fr. Provost, Professor at the Conservatoire ; — 1859. Speech of the Emperor Napoleon III. ; — The Victories in Italy (6 varieties) ; — The Comptoir d'Escompte of Bordeaux ; — To Sciences and Arts ; — 1860. Mgr. Olivier, Bishop of Evreux; — 1861. Napoleon II. (2 var.); — 1863. Capture of Puebla ; — School of Medecine and Pharmacy of Tours; — 1864. Société des concerts du Conservatoire de musique; — Admiral Bruat; — L. Petitot, Sculptor; — 1865. Ph. Pompéc, School master ; — 1866. Marshal Pélissier; — Major General G. Thomas; — 1867. The Duc de Morny; — 1868. F. Esquiran de Parieu, Minister of Public Instruction and Worship; — J. Pelouze, President of the Monetary Commission; — 1869. Inauguration of the Church of the Trinity, Paris ; — Fire Insurance against the Fire of Poitiers; — 1879. Lodge of the Grand Orient of Besancon ; — Marshal Niel ; — Francois Ponsard (2 types); — 1871. Proclamation of the Republic ; — Homage to the Town of Châteaudun ; — The Siege of Paris, 1870-1871 ; — The Siege of Paris; — Defence of the Town of Besançon ; — The Geneva Convention; — 1872. F. Lambrecht, Minister of Interior; — 1873. Pierre Corneille; — A. Thiers; — 1874. Baptism of the Bell of the Church of Vincelottes (Yonne); — Agricultural Society of Haguenau; — 1875. Tribunal of Commerce of Brest; — 1876. Brother Philip. V. M. Borrel is also the author of some cast medallions, of : 1839. A. L. and B. de Jussieu; — 1845. A. Mickiewicz, J. Michelet and Edgar Quinet ; — 1867. Alexander II. of Russia ; — 1868. J. Pelouze ; and he engraved the pieces of 1 Décime, 5 Centimes, and the obv. of the 5 Franc piece of Honoré V., Prince of Monaco. To this artist are attributed also : Blessés belligérants, Besançon, 1866; — Société du Mesmérisme de Paris, 1831; — Société de Magnétisme, 1836; — Cholera Visitation, 1849; — Dr Jacobo Coster (1798-1868) of Turin; — Dr Paul Bert (1833-1876) of Paris; — " Société des médecins des bureaux de bienfaisance", 1877 ; — Auguste Bella, 1864; — Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1867; — Stanislaus, King of Poland; — Victor Emmanuel II., King of Italy ; — General Bourmont, &c. Most of these works were exhibited at the Salons between 1832 and 1878; he was awarded Medals in 1842, 1851, 1858, 1859, 1860, and 1864. The Pope created him a Knight of the Order of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus, in 1866. Borrel's style is fine, but somewhat wanting from an ?sthetic point of view; he has aimed, in his Portrait-medallions especially, at producing likeness and ignored to a certain extent the picturesque side of the subject to be treated. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Chavignerie et Auvray, op. cit. — Louis Revon, Maurice Borrel, Graveur en Médailles, Revue savoisienne, 31 Mai 1882. — Roger Marx,op. cit. — Mazerolle, V. M. Borrel (1804- 1882), 1902.
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
BÉVILLE, PAUL JULES ALBERT
BÉVILLE, PAUL JULES ALBERT (French). Contemporary Medallist, born at Tours, and residing at Paris, 95 Avenue de Villiers ; a pupil of the sculptor Chapu. He is the author of several Portraitmedallions, amongst which that of Louis Victor Baillot, the last French survivor or the battle of Waterloo, decorated on 29th February 1896 with the cross of the Legion of Honour, is mentioned by Dr F. P. Weber in his article on Medals of Centenarians, Num. Chron., 1897, P- 311. He has also executed Portrait-...
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BÉVILLE, PAUL JULES ALBERT (French). Contemporary Medallist, born at Tours, and residing at Paris, 95 Avenue de Villiers ; a pupil of the sculptor Chapu. He is the author of several Portraitmedallions, amongst which that of Louis Victor Baillot, the last French survivor or the battle of Waterloo, decorated on 29th February 1896 with the cross of the Legion of Honour, is mentioned by Dr F. P. Weber in his article on Medals of Centenarians, Num. Chron., 1897, P- 311. He has also executed Portrait-...
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BEYER, JUSTINUS
BEYER, JUSTINUS or JOHANN DE (Swiss). This Engraver, who was born at Basle, flourished in the early part of the eighteenth century at Berne, where he was still working in 1738. With Gessner, who filled the office of Master of the Mint at Zürich at about the same period, he is considered among the best eighteenth century Medal-engravers of Switzerland, after Hedlinger, and the two Dassiers. The following medals and coins by him are represented in the Wunderly von Muralt collection : Treaty of Aar...
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BEYER, JUSTINUS or JOHANN DE (Swiss). This Engraver, who was born at Basle, flourished in the early part of the eighteenth century at Berne, where he was still working in 1738. With Gessner, who filled the office of Master of the Mint at Zürich at about the same period, he is considered among the best eighteenth century Medal-engravers of Switzerland, after Hedlinger, and the two Dassiers. The following medals and coins by him are represented in the Wunderly von Muralt collection : Treaty of Aar...
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BIANCHI, CAV. FRANCESCO
BIANCHI, CAV. FRANCESCO (Ital.). Papal Mint-engraver and Medallist; succeeded his father Ignazio in 1869. He executed the dies for the last Papal Coinage, in 1870, and is the author of over a hundred medals of Pius IX. and Leo XIII., none of which are of much interest from an artistic point of view. Among the best known productions of this Die-sinker are : Pius IX., 1870, AI 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 Lire; AR 5, 2, 1 and 1/2 Lire; — Pius IX. as Princeps Pastorum; — Congress of Italian Physicians at ...
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BIANCHI, CAV. FRANCESCO (Ital.). Papal Mint-engraver and Medallist; succeeded his father Ignazio in 1869. He executed the dies for the last Papal Coinage, in 1870, and is the author of over a hundred medals of Pius IX. and Leo XIII., none of which are of much interest from an artistic point of view. Among the best known productions of this Die-sinker are : Pius IX., 1870, AI 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 Lire; AR 5, 2, 1 and 1/2 Lire; — Pius IX. as Princeps Pastorum; — Congress of Italian Physicians at ...
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BIANCHI, IGNAZIO
BIANCHI, IGNAZIO (Ital.). Papal Mint-engraver and Medallist; worked at Rome between 1848 and 1869, and executed besides the coinage a large number of medals with bust of the Pope Pius IX., and others. One of his finest productions is a large and heavy medal in silver, representing on R the interior of St. John Lateran's Church, a master-piece of the art of die-sinking. By him are also : Inauguration of San Spirito Hospital, Rome, .1866; — Hospital of St. Onofrius for the Insane, 1866; — St. Tho...
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BIANCHI, IGNAZIO (Ital.). Papal Mint-engraver and Medallist; worked at Rome between 1848 and 1869, and executed besides the coinage a large number of medals with bust of the Pope Pius IX., and others. One of his finest productions is a large and heavy medal in silver, representing on R the interior of St. John Lateran's Church, a master-piece of the art of die-sinking. By him are also : Inauguration of San Spirito Hospital, Rome, .1866; — Hospital of St. Onofrius for the Insane, 1866; — St. Tho...
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