CHICHESTER, SIR JOHN DE (Brit.). Master of the London Mint, 40th year of Edward III. He was a goldsmith by trade, and his shop was at the corner of Friday St., in the Chepe. He made the King's privy seal, and the wedding jewellery for the King's son and the Lady Blanche.
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
HOUDON, JEAN ANTOINE
HOUDON, JEAN ANTOINE (French). Anoted French Sculptor, born at Versailles, about 1741 ; died at Paris, July 16, 1828. " He won the prix de Rome at the age of nineteen, and remained in Italy ten years during the period of Winckelmann and the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. While in Rome, he made the famous statue of St. Bruno at Sainte-Marie-des-Anges. On his return to France he exhibited in the Salon of 177 1 a statuette of Morphee which secured his admission to the Academy of France, an...
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HOUDON, JEAN ANTOINE (French). Anoted French Sculptor, born at Versailles, about 1741 ; died at Paris, July 16, 1828. " He won the prix de Rome at the age of nineteen, and remained in Italy ten years during the period of Winckelmann and the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. While in Rome, he made the famous statue of St. Bruno at Sainte-Marie-des-Anges. On his return to France he exhibited in the Salon of 177 1 a statuette of Morphee which secured his admission to the Academy of France, an...
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HUBER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH
HUBER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (Swiss). Medallist and Coin-engraver, born at Basle in 1766. He studied at Rome, and was a pupil of Johann Martin Bückle. Towards the end of the eighteenth century he was working at the mint of Basle, but in 1805 he entered into Eartnership with an art-dealer of his native city, from which time he apparently ceased to do medal-work. Huber's full signature I. F. HVBER appears on a Prize Medal of the City and Republic of Basle, 1792, given to representatives of Swiss States...
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HUBER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (Swiss). Medallist and Coin-engraver, born at Basle in 1766. He studied at Rome, and was a pupil of Johann Martin Bückle. Towards the end of the eighteenth century he was working at the mint of Basle, but in 1805 he entered into Eartnership with an art-dealer of his native city, from which time he apparently ceased to do medal-work. Huber's full signature I. F. HVBER appears on a Prize Medal of the City and Republic of Basle, 1792, given to representatives of Swiss States...
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HUE, ERNEST
HUE, ERNEST (French). Contemporary Gem-engraver, born at Paris ; a pupil of A. Toussaint and Salmson Senr. He has exhibited the following gems at the Paris Salons: 1861. Cupid chained at the foot of a bust of Minerva by a female who scorns his anger, after Prud'hon's picture, onyx cameo; — 1875. Diane de Poitiers, after Jean Goujon, bust in sardonyx; — Prevost, of the Comédie-Française, cameo in onyx; — Universal Exhibition of 1878. Terpsi chore and Erato, after Prud'hon, sardonyx cameo ;— Galli...
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HUE, ERNEST (French). Contemporary Gem-engraver, born at Paris ; a pupil of A. Toussaint and Salmson Senr. He has exhibited the following gems at the Paris Salons: 1861. Cupid chained at the foot of a bust of Minerva by a female who scorns his anger, after Prud'hon's picture, onyx cameo; — 1875. Diane de Poitiers, after Jean Goujon, bust in sardonyx; — Prevost, of the Comédie-Française, cameo in onyx; — Universal Exhibition of 1878. Terpsi chore and Erato, after Prud'hon, sardonyx cameo ;— Galli...
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HUGUENIN FRÉRES
HUGUENIN FRÉRES (Suriss). One of the foremost Die-sinking establishments of Switzerland, founded at Le Locle (Canton Neuchâtel) in 1868, and occupying at the present time over one hundred workmen. Besides manufacturing watch-cases, in which branch Huguenin freres have earned a well-merited reputation, the firm has been also connected for the last twenty years with medal-work, and has developed into an eminently successful business concern, thanks to the sound professional knowledge of the partne...
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HUGUENIN FRÉRES (Suriss). One of the foremost Die-sinking establishments of Switzerland, founded at Le Locle (Canton Neuchâtel) in 1868, and occupying at the present time over one hundred workmen. Besides manufacturing watch-cases, in which branch Huguenin freres have earned a well-merited reputation, the firm has been also connected for the last twenty years with medal-work, and has developed into an eminently successful business concern, thanks to the sound professional knowledge of the partne...
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