DE SAULLES, GEORGE WILLIAM (Brit.). Late Chief-engraver at the Royal Mint, London ; born 1862; died July 21st, 1903. This talented Engraver " began his art training at an early age at the Birmingham School of Art, where, under the able tuition of the master, Mr. Taylor, whose influence he was al ways pleased to acknowledge, he studied some years, winning several prizes and a scholarship, which he could not follow up in consequence of being apprenticed to Mr. Wilcox, die-sinker, of Birmingham, with whom a varied practice, which included the execution of dies for labels for Manchester goods — at that time large and artistic in design, some including figure subjects — gave good scope for training to an intelligent student. Occupied with these and ordinary die-sinking work, Mr. de Saulles completed his term of apprenticeship and came to London in 1884, where he spent several years working for Mr. Pinches. Leaving London in 1888, de Saulles returned to Birmingham and worked for Joseph Moore, the medallist, until 1892, when, hearing that the post of Engraver to the Royal Mint was vacant, on account of the death of Leonard Charles Wyon, he made application for the office, and was duly appointed. Since that time he was occupied in the production of dies for the coins and medals issued by the Government, his first public work being the execution of the dies for the new issue of coins in 1893, designed by Thomas Brock, R. A., who also superintended the work. Mr. de Saulles also executed many private and public commissions, one of the most recent being the dies for the new issue of coins on the king's accession. He designed, modelled, and engraved most of his works. He initiated and executed with remarkable rapidity the most complicated and diverse designs, as the following list shows, but it is to be feared that devotion to his art, which kept him working early and late, weakened a constitution never very robust and helped on the end so much to be deplored. " Official medals. 1894. Volunteer (Long Service); — Colonial and Auxiliary Forces (Long Service); — 1895. India (General Service), first issued for Chitral ; — 1896. Royal Victorian (Queen's Private Medal) ;— For services at Wreck of " Drummond Castle " ; 1897. Soudan; — Uganda, or Eastern Central Africa; — Queen's Jubilee, or Longest Reign Celebration (two sizes); — 1898. Canada (Fenian Raid, 1866, etc.); — 1900. South Africa (Queen's head); — Naval Hospital, Haslar; — Irish Constabulary; — 1901. Royal Society Gold Medal (Newton) ; — Cape of Good Hope (given by Cape Government) ; — King's head (Africa General Service) ; — King's head (Ashanti); — 1902. Coronation medal (two sizes); Police Medal (Coronation) ; — King's Private Medal ; — Royal Society of British Architects ; — Winchester College; — Military —head of King for Sandhurst, Woolwich, and Wellington Colleges; Naval head of King for Training Ships, Britannia, Worcester, and Conway; — Rugby School. Private medals. 1899. Professor Stokes ; — 1900. Duke and Duchess of Cornwall on the occasion of their Visit to Canada ; — 1901. Professor Aspinwall Howe (Montreal School); — Lord Strathcona (Montreal School); — Samuel Carnegie; — 1903. National Lifeboat Institution. Coins. 1893. Gold and Silver series, including Maundy Money; — 1894. Dollar for Hong Kong and Straits Settlements; — 1895. Bronze series, with newly-designed reverse, Britannia; — 1900. Cyprus; — 1902. India; — Gold, Silver, and Bronze series, on accession of King Edward VII., and other Colonial issues having same obverse as Indian, crowned head of King. Plaques. Sir W. Chandler Roberts-Austen, K. C. B. ; — Sir Horace Seymour, K. C. B. ; — F.T. Cobbold, Esq. Seals. 1898. New Great Seal of England and many designs for new Official Seals for the Colonies, etc. “ Mr. de Saulles was a master of his craft and an Artist as well. Like Mr. Bowcher, he has been influenced by M. Chaplain, M. Roty, and other French masters ; but the pressure presumably exerted on him by our official atmosphere prevented him from losing entirely the formality and neatness which British taste demands. " (M. H. Spielmann, British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-day, 1902. Bibliography. — John H. Pinches, George William de Saulles, Numismatic Chronicle, 1903, p. 311.
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
CURÉ, SIMON
CURÉ, SIMON (French). Medallist and Goldsmith of the first half of the eighteenth century, of whom we possess a number of Portraitmedals of French Celebrities, Scientists, and Artists, such as : Titon du Tillet ; — Francois Maynard ; — Jean Francois Sarrasin ; — Lalande, 1726 ; — Houdard de Lamotte, 1731 ; — Crébillon ; — Vaniére ; — Charles de La Rue, 1725 ; — Paul Francois de Malherbe, 1718; — Clément Marot, 1718; — Moliére; — Jean Racine, 1718 ; — René Rapin ; — Voiture ; — Scarron ; — Scévol...
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CURÉ, SIMON (French). Medallist and Goldsmith of the first half of the eighteenth century, of whom we possess a number of Portraitmedals of French Celebrities, Scientists, and Artists, such as : Titon du Tillet ; — Francois Maynard ; — Jean Francois Sarrasin ; — Lalande, 1726 ; — Houdard de Lamotte, 1731 ; — Crébillon ; — Vaniére ; — Charles de La Rue, 1725 ; — Paul Francois de Malherbe, 1718; — Clément Marot, 1718; — Moliére; — Jean Racine, 1718 ; — René Rapin ; — Voiture ; — Scarron ; — Scévol...
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DADLER, SEBASTIAN
DADLER, SEBASTIAN (Germ.). One of the foremost Medallists of the seventeenth century. According to the best authorities, he was born at Strassburg, but resided in turn at Augsburg, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Dresden, in which last-named city he spent the latter part of his life, and presumably died in 1654. His works date from 1619 to 1654. At Augsburg, where we find him in 1619, be filled the post of first Goldsmith to the Imperial Court, and there attained celebrity as a Medallist and Chaser in g...
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DADLER, SEBASTIAN (Germ.). One of the foremost Medallists of the seventeenth century. According to the best authorities, he was born at Strassburg, but resided in turn at Augsburg, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Dresden, in which last-named city he spent the latter part of his life, and presumably died in 1654. His works date from 1619 to 1654. At Augsburg, where we find him in 1619, be filled the post of first Goldsmith to the Imperial Court, and there attained celebrity as a Medallist and Chaser in g...
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DAEDALOS
DAEDALOS (Greek). Vide ?A suprâ. Sculptor, of Sicyon, the son and disciple of Patrocles, and mentioned by Pliny among the artists of the 95th Olympiad. Daedalos erected a trophy for the Eleians in the Altis after a victory over the Lacedaemonians in the war which lasted B.C. 401-399. Besides this trophy, he made several statues of athletes and some other works (Smith's Diet, of Greek and Roman Biog.) " Professor Gardner ", says Dr B. V. Head, " has even ventured to suggest that Daedalos may actu...
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DAEDALOS (Greek). Vide ?A suprâ. Sculptor, of Sicyon, the son and disciple of Patrocles, and mentioned by Pliny among the artists of the 95th Olympiad. Daedalos erected a trophy for the Eleians in the Altis after a victory over the Lacedaemonians in the war which lasted B.C. 401-399. Besides this trophy, he made several statues of athletes and some other works (Smith's Diet, of Greek and Roman Biog.) " Professor Gardner ", says Dr B. V. Head, " has even ventured to suggest that Daedalos may actu...
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DAISER, JOSEPH
DAISER, JOSEPH (Germ.). Sculptor of the second half of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth, born in 1755. He was employed for some years as Engraver of the coins at the Mints of Günzburg 1801-1807, and Munich, 1807- 1827. A medal, struck in 1810, and bearing a fine portrait of King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, is signed by him. There are also others : L. B. Lytgendorff, aeronaut; — Pilgrim's Badges; &c. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Schlickeysen-Pallmann, op. cit. — ...
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DAISER, JOSEPH (Germ.). Sculptor of the second half of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth, born in 1755. He was employed for some years as Engraver of the coins at the Mints of Günzburg 1801-1807, and Munich, 1807- 1827. A medal, struck in 1810, and bearing a fine portrait of King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, is signed by him. There are also others : L. B. Lytgendorff, aeronaut; — Pilgrim's Badges; &c. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Schlickeysen-Pallmann, op. cit. — ...
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