DUPRÉ, GIOVANNI (Ital.). Sculptor of French origin, born at Sienna on the 1st of March, 1817. His father was an intagliatore, or wood-carver, and with him the young artist learnt the first elements of sculpture. Dupré died on the 10th of January, 1882. His principal works are : Abel (in the Pitti Palace); — Allegorical Tazza ; — The Ferrari Monument in San Lorenzo ; — Statue of Sappho ; — The Cavour Monument in Turin ; — Statues of Pope Pius IX., Victor Emanuel II., Raimondo Lullo, and St. Francis of Assisi, &c. The artist executed Portrait-medallions in clay and bronze; amongst them one of Dr Virchow, Berlin, 1873. Bibliography. — Henry Simmons Frieze, Giovanni Dupré, London, 1886.
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
DIXON, ROGER
DIXON, ROGER (Brit.). A. Birmingham Die-sinker of the end of the eighteenth century. He engraved numerous tokens, amongst which it may be worth while mentioning the following, which exhibit very creditable work : Beccles, 1795 ; — Birmingham Overseers, 1788 ; — Rackham, Bury; — C. Guest, Bury, 1795 ; — B. I. V. Co, Burnt Island, 1797; — J. Matthews, Canterbury, 1794; — A. Simpson, Chesham, 1795; — T. Horn, Cinque Ports (2 var.); — H. Boorman, East Grinstead, 1795 ; — J. Grow, Feversham, 1794; — ...
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DIXON, ROGER (Brit.). A. Birmingham Die-sinker of the end of the eighteenth century. He engraved numerous tokens, amongst which it may be worth while mentioning the following, which exhibit very creditable work : Beccles, 1795 ; — Birmingham Overseers, 1788 ; — Rackham, Bury; — C. Guest, Bury, 1795 ; — B. I. V. Co, Burnt Island, 1797; — J. Matthews, Canterbury, 1794; — A. Simpson, Chesham, 1795; — T. Horn, Cinque Ports (2 var.); — H. Boorman, East Grinstead, 1795 ; — J. Grow, Feversham, 1794; — ...
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DOBICHT
DOBICHT (Germ.). Bookbinder, then Die-sinker at Neuwied, in the service of the Counts of Wied-Neuwied, 1750-1756. His name occurs again in 1780. The medals by this attist mostly refer to the history of Kurfürst Johann Philipp of Treves; he is also the author of a Marriage medal of Count Philipp von der Lippe, 1780. I have seen his signature, D., on a medal of Charles William Frederick of Brandenburg, 1750. — Mining Thaler of same year. — Medal of Count Wied, 1752, &c. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal,...
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DOBICHT (Germ.). Bookbinder, then Die-sinker at Neuwied, in the service of the Counts of Wied-Neuwied, 1750-1756. His name occurs again in 1780. The medals by this attist mostly refer to the history of Kurfürst Johann Philipp of Treves; he is also the author of a Marriage medal of Count Philipp von der Lippe, 1780. I have seen his signature, D., on a medal of Charles William Frederick of Brandenburg, 1750. — Mining Thaler of same year. — Medal of Count Wied, 1752, &c. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal,...
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DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND
DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (Germ.). A Nuremberg Medallist of the end of the seventeenth century. He engraved a number of medals, and also some of the artistic Thalers of Nuremberg, on which the Rathhaus is depicted. In the Reimmann sale there was a specimen of this coin bearing the letters P. H. M., initials of the engraver Philipp Heinrich Müller, who apparently also cut dies for the same coinage. Dodder, the elder, was still living in 1688, as we learn from contemporary documents. Bibliography. ...
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DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (Germ.). A Nuremberg Medallist of the end of the seventeenth century. He engraved a number of medals, and also some of the artistic Thalers of Nuremberg, on which the Rathhaus is depicted. In the Reimmann sale there was a specimen of this coin bearing the letters P. H. M., initials of the engraver Philipp Heinrich Müller, who apparently also cut dies for the same coinage. Dodder, the elder, was still living in 1688, as we learn from contemporary documents. Bibliography. ...
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DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (2.)
DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (Germ.). Son of the last ; also a Nuremberg Medallist of the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth, centuries. He died after 1730, as coins exist of that year, engraved by him, commemorating the centenary of the Augsburg Confession. There is a coronation medal of Charles VI., 1711, by him, and a commemorative piece of the canonization of Johann Nepomuk, 1729-1736. The former is signed S. D. S. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Ad. Hess Nachf., Reimm...
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DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (Germ.). Son of the last ; also a Nuremberg Medallist of the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth, centuries. He died after 1730, as coins exist of that year, engraved by him, commemorating the centenary of the Augsburg Confession. There is a coronation medal of Charles VI., 1711, by him, and a commemorative piece of the canonization of Johann Nepomuk, 1729-1736. The former is signed S. D. S. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Ad. Hess Nachf., Reimm...
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