COUTO, CYPRIANO DO (Portug.). Goldsmith, and Mint-engraver at Lisbon, 1641- 1646.
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
CLÉRION, JEAN JACQUES
CLÉRION, JEAN JACQUES (French). Engraver of the second half of the eighteenth century. He worked for the Paris Medal Mint from 1674 to 1678 and contributed to the Medallic series of Louis XIV. There is a medal by him of the famous Jesuit Pére Lachaise, 1699. His name is mentioned in 1674, 1676, and 1678 in connection with payments which he received for medals and puncheons executed by him. It is surmised that the sculptor who, at about the same time, did numerous works for the gardens of Versail...
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CLÉRION, JEAN JACQUES (French). Engraver of the second half of the eighteenth century. He worked for the Paris Medal Mint from 1674 to 1678 and contributed to the Medallic series of Louis XIV. There is a medal by him of the famous Jesuit Pére Lachaise, 1699. His name is mentioned in 1674, 1676, and 1678 in connection with payments which he received for medals and puncheons executed by him. It is surmised that the sculptor who, at about the same time, did numerous works for the gardens of Versail...
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CLINT, SCIPIO
CLINT, SCIPIO (Brit.). Son of George Clint, A.R.A., Portraitpainter and Engraver; born in 1805 ; died on the 6th August 1839. He was appointed Medallist to William IV., and Seal-engraver to Queen Victoria. In 1824 he gained the medal of the Society of Arts, and exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1825. There are medals by him of William of Wykeham, with head of William IV. on obv. and the tomb of William of Wykeham on R. ; — John Capel, M. P. for Queenborough, 1826; — Sir Thomas...
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CLINT, SCIPIO (Brit.). Son of George Clint, A.R.A., Portraitpainter and Engraver; born in 1805 ; died on the 6th August 1839. He was appointed Medallist to William IV., and Seal-engraver to Queen Victoria. In 1824 he gained the medal of the Society of Arts, and exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1825. There are medals by him of William of Wykeham, with head of William IV. on obv. and the tomb of William of Wykeham on R. ; — John Capel, M. P. for Queenborough, 1826; — Sir Thomas...
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CLODION
CLODION otherwise CLAUDE MICHEL (French). Sculptor, born at Nancy in 1738, died at Paris in 1814. He excelled in the light and graceful style and produced some charming Plaques and Bas-reliefs. His figures of young girls playing with birds are master-pieces of taste and ingenuity. I lately saw a pair of long oblong Plaquettes, probably by this artist, representing children playing shuttlecock and skipping (size 85x31 mill.; Rome Sale Cat., lot 339, 26. February 1904; realized ?. 12.10.0). —Among...
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CLODION otherwise CLAUDE MICHEL (French). Sculptor, born at Nancy in 1738, died at Paris in 1814. He excelled in the light and graceful style and produced some charming Plaques and Bas-reliefs. His figures of young girls playing with birds are master-pieces of taste and ingenuity. I lately saw a pair of long oblong Plaquettes, probably by this artist, representing children playing shuttlecock and skipping (size 85x31 mill.; Rome Sale Cat., lot 339, 26. February 1904; realized ?. 12.10.0). —Among...
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CLOT, JOHANNES
CLOT, JOHANNES (Germ.). Medallist, and Engraver at the Mint of Genoa, in the early part of the sixteenth century. His monogram I. C. appears on a medal of Marguerite de Foix, second wife of Luigi II., Marquis of Saluzzo, struck in 1516. This piece bears on obv. the bust of the Princess, and on R. the legend DEVS. PROTECTOR . ET . REFVGIVM . MEVM . I . I . C. This engraver is no doubt also the author of the Ten-Zecchini piece, illustrated and described below. Obv. + LUDOVICVS.MARCHIO.ET. MARGARIT...
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CLOT, JOHANNES (Germ.). Medallist, and Engraver at the Mint of Genoa, in the early part of the sixteenth century. His monogram I. C. appears on a medal of Marguerite de Foix, second wife of Luigi II., Marquis of Saluzzo, struck in 1516. This piece bears on obv. the bust of the Princess, and on R. the legend DEVS. PROTECTOR . ET . REFVGIVM . MEVM . I . I . C. This engraver is no doubt also the author of the Ten-Zecchini piece, illustrated and described below. Obv. + LUDOVICVS.MARCHIO.ET. MARGARIT...
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