BRUEL, LUDWIG AUGUST (Germ.). Master of the Mint at Hanover, 1817-1838. The currency issued by him bears his initials L.B. There is a medal in the Mudie Series, commemorating the Bombardment of Algiers, 1816, with bust of Viscount Exmouth, signed LOUIS BR., F., and which is supposed to have been engraved by this artist. Bibliography. — H. A. Grueber, English Personal Medals from 1760, Numismatic Chronicle, 1891.
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
BOSSELT, RUDOLF
BOSSELT, RUDOLF (Germ.). This Medallist, who resides at Darmstadt, executed in 1900, the official medal, commissioned by the city of Mayence, to commemorate the fifth centenary of Gutenberg. His Goethe Medal, on the Goethe Festivities at Frankfort-on-Main, 1899, is a superior piece of work. He has lately been rewarded by Dr Bosse, German Minister of Public Worship, for a fine Baptismal Medal with motto Carpe Diem, and he has also executed a commemorative medal ot the Exhibition of Darmstadt, wit...
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BOSSELT, RUDOLF (Germ.). This Medallist, who resides at Darmstadt, executed in 1900, the official medal, commissioned by the city of Mayence, to commemorate the fifth centenary of Gutenberg. His Goethe Medal, on the Goethe Festivities at Frankfort-on-Main, 1899, is a superior piece of work. He has lately been rewarded by Dr Bosse, German Minister of Public Worship, for a fine Baptismal Medal with motto Carpe Diem, and he has also executed a commemorative medal ot the Exhibition of Darmstadt, wit...
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BOTTÉE, LOUIS ALEXANDRE
BOTTÉE, LOUIS ALEXANDRE (French). Contemporary Medallist, residing at Paris; born in 1852 ; was apprenticed at the age of 13 in a button factory, to which was attached a studio for medalengraving ; followed the evening classes of the Drawing Schools of the city of Paris, and then of the School for Decorative Arts ; entered in 1869 the work-shop of M. Tasset, the medallist, and was interrupted in his studies by the Franco-German War. In 1871, he was received as a pupil at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts...
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BOTTÉE, LOUIS ALEXANDRE (French). Contemporary Medallist, residing at Paris; born in 1852 ; was apprenticed at the age of 13 in a button factory, to which was attached a studio for medalengraving ; followed the evening classes of the Drawing Schools of the city of Paris, and then of the School for Decorative Arts ; entered in 1869 the work-shop of M. Tasset, the medallist, and was interrupted in his studies by the Franco-German War. In 1871, he was received as a pupil at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts...
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BOUCHARDON, EDMOND
BOUCHARDON, EDMOND (French). Painter and Sculptor under Louis XV. Some of his drawings have been copied by the great French gem-engraver Jacques Guay, amongst others his Genius of Poetry, intaglio on a fine light sardonyx; the Rape of Dejaneira also an intaglio, and theTriumph of Fontenoy on a carnelian.Bouchardon was born in 1698, and died at Paris in 1762. He was one of the most noteworthy statuaries of the eighteenth century. It may be of interest to mention that the plates of Mariette's " Tr...
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BOUCHARDON, EDMOND (French). Painter and Sculptor under Louis XV. Some of his drawings have been copied by the great French gem-engraver Jacques Guay, amongst others his Genius of Poetry, intaglio on a fine light sardonyx; the Rape of Dejaneira also an intaglio, and theTriumph of Fontenoy on a carnelian.Bouchardon was born in 1698, and died at Paris in 1762. He was one of the most noteworthy statuaries of the eighteenth century. It may be of interest to mention that the plates of Mariette's " Tr...
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BOULTON, MATTHEW
BOULTON, MATTHEW (Brit.), 1728-1809. Born at Birmingham, 3. Sept. 1728. His father was a silver stamper and piercer, who had been obliged to enter business in consequence of family reverses. Young Matthew Boulton carried on the trade, and on his father's death, in 1759, had already extended it considerably. In 1760, having married a wealthy heiress, Anne Robinson of Lichfield, he was in a position to further enlarge his works, which later on became the Soho Mint, now The Mint, Birmingham, Ltd. O...
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BOULTON, MATTHEW (Brit.), 1728-1809. Born at Birmingham, 3. Sept. 1728. His father was a silver stamper and piercer, who had been obliged to enter business in consequence of family reverses. Young Matthew Boulton carried on the trade, and on his father's death, in 1759, had already extended it considerably. In 1760, having married a wealthy heiress, Anne Robinson of Lichfield, he was in a position to further enlarge his works, which later on became the Soho Mint, now The Mint, Birmingham, Ltd. O...
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