DEVREESE, GODEFROID (Belg.). Contemporary Medallist, born at Courtrai, in Flanders, 19th August 1861. He first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of his native town, and under his father, the well-known sculptor, Constant Devreese. In 1881, he went to Brussels, and studied there under Simonis and Charles van der Stappen. When 24 years' old he gained the second Prix de Rome; subject, The Death of Caesar, bas relief. In 1889, he obtained a First Prize in a competition for sculpture from life opened by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, and in the same year, the gold medal at the Exhibition of Cologne. Devreese has executed many important works of sculpture, and since 1898 he has produced also numerous medals. Struck medals and plaques. — 1895. Commune d'Eynthout (Plaquette, 55 X 40 mill.); — 1898. 25th Anniversary of the Foundation of the firm ot Gratry & Co at Lille; — La Dentelliére (illustrated) ; — Maternal Love ; — 1899. Concours de jeux et tirs populaires(plaquette, 65 X 40 mill.; illustrated); — Héléne (plaquette, 28 X 20 mill.); — 1900. Young Girl (or La Polonaise); — 1901. Charles Buls, late Burgomaster of Brussels; — Badge of the Société hollandaise-belge des Amis de la médaille d'art (illustrated) ; — Concours agricoles régionaux ; — Comte G. de Nédonchel ; — E. J. Soil; — Conseil communal de Tournai ; — 1902. General Delarey ; —Belgian Photographic Association (plaquette, 63 X 35 mill.); — General Botha; — General Delarey; — General De Wett; — Le Billard; — M. Fierens Gevaert ; — Golden Wedding of Baron Devos van Steenwyk ; — Bébé ; — The Invention of Drawing (plaquette, 52 X 60 mill.); — Lawn-Tennis; — 1904. Edouard van den Broeck, numismatist ; — Ostend Golf Club, &c. Cast medals and plaques. — 1900. Young Polish Girl (illustrated) ; — 1901. Badge of the Société hollandaise-belge des Amis de la medaille d'art ; — 1902. Belgian Photographic Association ; — M. Alphonse de Witte, secretary of the Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium (140 X 97 mill.); — 1903. Invention du Dessin; — The artist's Father and Mother (120 X 95 mill.); — 1904. E. van den Broeck. Coins. — Republic of Ha?ti, Centenary Gourde, 1904. M. Devreese is a knight of the Order of Leopold. His best known works in sculpture are : Statue of the Flemish poet Van Duyse, at Termonde ; the Chimerae of the Anspach Monument, at Brussels ; Apollo, in the Royal Palace at Laeken ; Bust of Frédéric Cailliaud, in the Natural History Museum, at Nantes; Monument at Courtrai commemorating the Battle of the golden Spurs, &c. A writer in The Studio, December 1904, p. 265, sums up his notice on the artist, in the following words : "The work of Devreese the medallist is remarkable for various qualities : the characteristic construction of the faces; the clean cutting of the profiles; ingenuity of invention in composition; and sureness in the placing of the subject. It is to be hoped that the numerous proofs he has given of these qualities will induce the official authorities to entrust him with the execution of their numismatic work. " There is a Portrait-medal of Devreese by Paul Fisch. Bibliography. — A. de Witte, Godefroid Devreese, Médailleur, Gazette numismatique francaise, 1903, pp. 337-353.
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
DAVID, ADOLPHE
DAVID, ADOLPHE (French). Gem-engraver and Medallist, born at Baugé (Maine-et-Loire), 1828, died at Paris in 1896; pupil of Jouffrov. At the Salon of 1857, he exhibited three Portrait-camei, and a fourth representing the Wreck of the Medusa, and in 1863. Pudicitia resisting Love ; but the work which has rendered the name of the artist famous is the very large cameo — Apotheosis of Napoleon I. — a sardonyx of 24 by 22 centimétres. It reproduces the ceiling painted by Ingres in 1854 in the grand re...
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DAVID, ADOLPHE (French). Gem-engraver and Medallist, born at Baugé (Maine-et-Loire), 1828, died at Paris in 1896; pupil of Jouffrov. At the Salon of 1857, he exhibited three Portrait-camei, and a fourth representing the Wreck of the Medusa, and in 1863. Pudicitia resisting Love ; but the work which has rendered the name of the artist famous is the very large cameo — Apotheosis of Napoleon I. — a sardonyx of 24 by 22 centimétres. It reproduces the ceiling painted by Ingres in 1854 in the grand re...
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DAVID, JACQUES-LOUIS
DAVID, JACQUES-LOUIS (French). 1748-1825. The reformer of modern French painting, and one of the greatest artists of the end of the eighteenth century and beginning ot the nineteenth. He was a pupil of Boucher, and studied also for five years at the French Academy in Rome, where he produced his first great picture, the “Plague of St Roch ". Returning to France soon after, he was received with all possible honour, admitted to the Academy, lodged at the Louvre, and surrounded by a host of admirer...
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DAVID, JACQUES-LOUIS (French). 1748-1825. The reformer of modern French painting, and one of the greatest artists of the end of the eighteenth century and beginning ot the nineteenth. He was a pupil of Boucher, and studied also for five years at the French Academy in Rome, where he produced his first great picture, the “Plague of St Roch ". Returning to France soon after, he was received with all possible honour, admitted to the Academy, lodged at the Louvre, and surrounded by a host of admirer...
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DAVIES, WILLIAM
DAVIES, WILLIAM (Brit.). A Birmingham Die-sinker and Engraver of a number of English Provincial Tokens, such as those of James Powele, Abergavenny. 1795 — J. Allin, Birmingham, 1796; — Niblock and Hunter, Bristol, 1795 ; (2 var.); — Scottolo, Gatehouse, 1793 ; — D. J. Eaton, London, 1795 ; — Lowestoft, 1795 ; — J. Smith, Maidstone, 1795 ; — W. Draper, Maldon; — J. Powell, Monmouth, 1795 ; — Bissett and Son, Montrose, 1796 ; — J. and T. Cloakes, Tenterden, 1796; — D.and J. Boulter, Yarmouth, 179...
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DAVIES, WILLIAM (Brit.). A Birmingham Die-sinker and Engraver of a number of English Provincial Tokens, such as those of James Powele, Abergavenny. 1795 — J. Allin, Birmingham, 1796; — Niblock and Hunter, Bristol, 1795 ; (2 var.); — Scottolo, Gatehouse, 1793 ; — D. J. Eaton, London, 1795 ; — Lowestoft, 1795 ; — J. Smith, Maidstone, 1795 ; — W. Draper, Maldon; — J. Powell, Monmouth, 1795 ; — Bissett and Son, Montrose, 1796 ; — J. and T. Cloakes, Tenterden, 1796; — D.and J. Boulter, Yarmouth, 179...
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DAVIS, JOSEPH
DAVIS, JOSEPH (Brit.). A Birmingham Medallist of the second quarter of the nineteenth century ; died about 1857. He is the issuer of the following medals : Chipping Norton Political Union, established 1831 ; — Return of Thomas Attwood to Birmingham from London, 1832 ; — Sir Marc Isambard Brunei, on the Completion of the Thames Tunnel, 1842; — William Carey, Jubilee of the Baptist Mission, 1842 (2 types); — Temperance Badges, 1838; — Earl Grey; — Thomas Clarkson (illustrated); — The Duke of Welli...
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DAVIS, JOSEPH (Brit.). A Birmingham Medallist of the second quarter of the nineteenth century ; died about 1857. He is the issuer of the following medals : Chipping Norton Political Union, established 1831 ; — Return of Thomas Attwood to Birmingham from London, 1832 ; — Sir Marc Isambard Brunei, on the Completion of the Thames Tunnel, 1842; — William Carey, Jubilee of the Baptist Mission, 1842 (2 types); — Temperance Badges, 1838; — Earl Grey; — Thomas Clarkson (illustrated); — The Duke of Welli...
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