BRAGADINO, TOMMASO (Ital.). Inspector of the Mint at Venice, 1618.
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
BOEHM, JOSEF DANIEL
BOEHM, JOSEF DANIEL (Austr.). Medallist and Mint-engraver of Vienna, during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1794; studied under Pichler and at Rome under Canova and Thorwaldsen. For a number of years he filled the office of Director of the Vienna Mint. Among Boehm's principal medallic works and coin-dies are : Josepha Fodor, Viennese actress, 1825; — Archduke Charles Louis, 1843; — Dedication of the new cathedral at Erlau, 1837; — Enthronization of Ferdinand Maria, ...
[ More about BOEHM, JOSEF DANIEL ]
BOEHM, JOSEF DANIEL (Austr.). Medallist and Mint-engraver of Vienna, during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1794; studied under Pichler and at Rome under Canova and Thorwaldsen. For a number of years he filled the office of Director of the Vienna Mint. Among Boehm's principal medallic works and coin-dies are : Josepha Fodor, Viennese actress, 1825; — Archduke Charles Louis, 1843; — Dedication of the new cathedral at Erlau, 1837; — Enthronization of Ferdinand Maria, ...
[ More about BOEHM, JOSEF DANIEL ]
BOEHM, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR, BART., R. A.
BOEHM, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR, BART., R. A. (Brit.). Sculptor and Medallist ; born at Vienna, 1834, settled in England after 1862; died Dec. 12, 1890. He was the son of J. D. Boehm, the Medallist and Gem-engraver. The Queen appointed him Sculptor in ordinary in 1881; in 1882, he was made a Royal Academician, and in 1889 was granted a baronetcy. Besides a number of medals, such as those commemorating Thomas Carlyle, 1875 ; — General Charles Richard Fox, the Numismatist, 1862, &c, he prepared the model ...
[ More about BOEHM, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR, BART., R. A. ]
BOEHM, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR, BART., R. A. (Brit.). Sculptor and Medallist ; born at Vienna, 1834, settled in England after 1862; died Dec. 12, 1890. He was the son of J. D. Boehm, the Medallist and Gem-engraver. The Queen appointed him Sculptor in ordinary in 1881; in 1882, he was made a Royal Academician, and in 1889 was granted a baronetcy. Besides a number of medals, such as those commemorating Thomas Carlyle, 1875 ; — General Charles Richard Fox, the Numismatist, 1862, &c, he prepared the model ...
[ More about BOEHM, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR, BART., R. A. ]
BOELGAR, HUBERT VAN
BOELGAR, HUBERT VAN (Belg.). Jeweller and Seal-engraver; worked for the Abbey of Grand Bigard, near Brussels. He is mentioned from 1497 to 1500, and is the author of a seal of Marguerite de Douvrin, who succeeded Philippa Smols as Abbess. He also engraved her arms on plate, and in Feb. 1500, repaired her ring. His son, Arnould, followed the same trade ; in some accounts of 1501-1502, his name appears as having cut a small seal in silver by order of the Abbess. Bibliography. — A. Pinchart, Les Mé...
[ More about BOELGAR, HUBERT VAN ]
BOELGAR, HUBERT VAN (Belg.). Jeweller and Seal-engraver; worked for the Abbey of Grand Bigard, near Brussels. He is mentioned from 1497 to 1500, and is the author of a seal of Marguerite de Douvrin, who succeeded Philippa Smols as Abbess. He also engraved her arms on plate, and in Feb. 1500, repaired her ring. His son, Arnould, followed the same trade ; in some accounts of 1501-1502, his name appears as having cut a small seal in silver by order of the Abbess. Bibliography. — A. Pinchart, Les Mé...
[ More about BOELGAR, HUBERT VAN ]
BOETHOS
BOETHOS (Greek). The signature of this Gem-engraver BOH?OY is found in relief on a cameo of the Beverley Collection, representing Philoctetes seated dressing the wound on his right foot and holding a bird's wing. King (Handbook of Engraved Gems, London, 1884) mentions the following particulars of the Beverley gem. “Thist cameo is quoted by Raspe as then in France, and supposed, by R. Rochette, to have come from Asia, because it is for the first time figured as a heading to Choiseul's map of Lem...
[ More about BOETHOS ]
BOETHOS (Greek). The signature of this Gem-engraver BOH?OY is found in relief on a cameo of the Beverley Collection, representing Philoctetes seated dressing the wound on his right foot and holding a bird's wing. King (Handbook of Engraved Gems, London, 1884) mentions the following particulars of the Beverley gem. “Thist cameo is quoted by Raspe as then in France, and supposed, by R. Rochette, to have come from Asia, because it is for the first time figured as a heading to Choiseul's map of Lem...
[ More about BOETHOS ]