BUNGNETEUR, NICOLAS LE (Belg.). Mint-master at Bruges, 20. December 1480 to 5. April 1481 ; at Ghent, 18. July 1482 to 21. May 1484.
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
Mint master:
In medieval and early modern Germany, the Münzmeister ("mint master", the Latin term is monetarius) was the director or administrator of a mint, a moneyer with responsibility for the minting of coins, or specie. His duties were defined differently at different locations and ages.
BOVY, HUGUES
BOVY, HUGUES (Swiss). Son of Marc Louis Bovy, Hugues Bovy, one of the foremost Swiss Medallists of modern times, was born at Geneva on the 20th May 1841, and died in July 1903 ; he was trained under the engraver Jacques Rochat-Châtelain, the painter Barthélemy Menn, a man of learning and real genius, the sculptor Dorciére, and Antoine Bovy, his uncle, by whose art he was greatly influenced. In ,1872, he succeeded Dorciére as Professor of modelling at the École des Beaux-Arts of Geneva. H. Bovy's...
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BOVY, HUGUES (Swiss). Son of Marc Louis Bovy, Hugues Bovy, one of the foremost Swiss Medallists of modern times, was born at Geneva on the 20th May 1841, and died in July 1903 ; he was trained under the engraver Jacques Rochat-Châtelain, the painter Barthélemy Menn, a man of learning and real genius, the sculptor Dorciére, and Antoine Bovy, his uncle, by whose art he was greatly influenced. In ,1872, he succeeded Dorciére as Professor of modelling at the École des Beaux-Arts of Geneva. H. Bovy's...
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BOVY, JEAN FRANCOIS ANTOINE
BOVY, JEAN FRANCOIS ANTOINE (Swiss). Born at Geneva, 14. December 1795; died there, 18. September 1877. His father was a Jeweller, and from his early youth A. Bovy displayed unusual abilities as an engraver on metal. In 1824, having completed his studies in his native city and already produced some very commendable work, he was sent to Paris, where, under the direction of the celebrated statuary, Pradier, he learned modelling and sculpture. He then returned to Geneva, was married, and in 1830 we...
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BOVY, JEAN FRANCOIS ANTOINE (Swiss). Born at Geneva, 14. December 1795; died there, 18. September 1877. His father was a Jeweller, and from his early youth A. Bovy displayed unusual abilities as an engraver on metal. In 1824, having completed his studies in his native city and already produced some very commendable work, he was sent to Paris, where, under the direction of the celebrated statuary, Pradier, he learned modelling and sculpture. He then returned to Geneva, was married, and in 1830 we...
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BOVY, MARC LOUIS
BOVY, MARC LOUIS (Swiss), 1805-1890. Medallist of Geneva, brother of Antoine Bovy and father of Hugues Bovy ; for a long time head-partner of a die-sinker's establishment, which has produced much good work during the greater part of the nineteenth century, and which still exists under the management of the present owner M. Louis Furet. M. L. Bovy is known as an Engraver only by a few medals, of private character, and better perhaps by his Pattern 2 Franc piece of 1854, which exists in different ...
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BOVY, MARC LOUIS (Swiss), 1805-1890. Medallist of Geneva, brother of Antoine Bovy and father of Hugues Bovy ; for a long time head-partner of a die-sinker's establishment, which has produced much good work during the greater part of the nineteenth century, and which still exists under the management of the present owner M. Louis Furet. M. L. Bovy is known as an Engraver only by a few medals, of private character, and better perhaps by his Pattern 2 Franc piece of 1854, which exists in different ...
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BOVY-GUGGISBERG, GEORGES
BOVY-GUGGISBERG, GEORGES (Swiss). Born at Geneva, Feb. 28, 1837, † Oct. 11, 1885. Liberally educated, though not in view of any definite profession, he was obliged in 1862 to enter his father's business, to the extension and development of which he devoted his whole energy for 23 years. He learned drawing and engraving in his spare moments and although he never attained the perfection of his uncle, Antoine Bovy, or of his brother, Hugues Bovy, two medals which he produced a year or two before hi...
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BOVY-GUGGISBERG, GEORGES (Swiss). Born at Geneva, Feb. 28, 1837, † Oct. 11, 1885. Liberally educated, though not in view of any definite profession, he was obliged in 1862 to enter his father's business, to the extension and development of which he devoted his whole energy for 23 years. He learned drawing and engraving in his spare moments and although he never attained the perfection of his uncle, Antoine Bovy, or of his brother, Hugues Bovy, two medals which he produced a year or two before hi...
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