DICKIESONE or DICKENSON, CHARLES (Scotch). Die-sinker and Seal-engraver of the second quarter of the seventeenth century, who worked at the Mint of Edinburgh, 1625-1636. He was employed to engrave a signet for King Charles I., but in 1636 he is mentioned as having maliciously spoilt Briot's portrait of the King on the Half-Merk of the second issue. " Whether through undue haste in the execution of the coinage, to supply the necessitous estate of the countries, or what is Quite possible, through malicious design, with a view to damage Briot (the officers ot the Scottish Mint having treated Briot all through in the most shabby manner and thrown every impediment in his way), the livelie impressions made by Briot for the King's portrait were completely spoiled by this Charles Dickesone in the sinking of the irons. " (Burns, op. cit.) In 1642, this Engraver prepared the dies for a coinage of Three and Two Shilling pieces. His work is of inferior quality. Bibliography. — Bums, Coins of Scotland, 1887. — H. A. Grueber, Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain and Inland, London, 1899.
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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