BRUPPACHER und SOHN (Swiss). Die-sinkers at Lucerne ; beginning of the nineteenth century. There is a large Jubilee medal, with bust of Zwingli, commemorating the Third centenary of the Reformation at Zurich, and struck in 1819, bearing the initials B and S. Bibliography. — Tobler-Meyer, Wunderly v. Muralt Münz-und Medaillen- Sammlung, Zurick, 1896. — H. Cailler, Les médailles du Réformatteur suisse Ulrich Zwingli, 1894.
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
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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BOURBERAIN, CLAUDE
BOURBERAIN, CLAUDE (French). Coin-engraver of Dijon, Mintmaster at Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 1590-1607. On the death of Léonor d'Orléans-Longueville, his widow, Marie de Bourbon, desiring to place the Mint of Neuchâtel on a working basis, engaged this moneyer, who was instated in his office on the 10th. April 1590. In 1595, he was employed by the Bishop of Basle and went to St. Ursanne for the purpose of engraving the dies of the episcopal coins. Although Bourberain did not sign his works, the fo...
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BOURBERAIN, CLAUDE (French). Coin-engraver of Dijon, Mintmaster at Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 1590-1607. On the death of Léonor d'Orléans-Longueville, his widow, Marie de Bourbon, desiring to place the Mint of Neuchâtel on a working basis, engaged this moneyer, who was instated in his office on the 10th. April 1590. In 1595, he was employed by the Bishop of Basle and went to St. Ursanne for the purpose of engraving the dies of the episcopal coins. Although Bourberain did not sign his works, the fo...
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BOURDICHON, JEHAN
BOURDICHON, JEHAN (French). Painter and Miniaturist, born at Tours in 1457, where he died in 1521. M. Blanchet, in a paper read before the Congrés de I'histoire de I'Art, at Paris, 26 July, 1900, has established the relations between painters and medallists at the Renaissance period, and shown for instance the similarity between the manuscript of Anne of Britanny and certain coins of Nantes. With Foucquet and Clouet, Bourdichon occupies a place of distinction in the French school of the Renaissa...
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BOURDICHON, JEHAN (French). Painter and Miniaturist, born at Tours in 1457, where he died in 1521. M. Blanchet, in a paper read before the Congrés de I'histoire de I'Art, at Paris, 26 July, 1900, has established the relations between painters and medallists at the Renaissance period, and shown for instance the similarity between the manuscript of Anne of Britanny and certain coins of Nantes. With Foucquet and Clouet, Bourdichon occupies a place of distinction in the French school of the Renaissa...
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