ERKER, HANS VON SCHRECKENFELS (Bohem.). Son of Mintmaster Lazarus Erker; Warden at the same Mint, under Benedikt Huebmer, 1610-1614.
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
DUPRÉ, GUILLAUME
DUPRÉ, GUILLAUME (French). Sculptor, Medallist, and Coinengraver, born at Sissonne, near Laon, in 1574, died on the 8th of June, 1647. He married in 1600, Madeleine, the daughter of his master, the sculptor Barthélemy Prieur, who, like him, belonged to the reformed religion. As early as 1597, Henry IV., pleased with the medal representing him as Hercules with Gabrielle d'Estrées on R, gave him the title of Sculptor in ordinary to His Majesty, and Dupré records in the following terms his august p...
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DUPRÉ, GUILLAUME (French). Sculptor, Medallist, and Coinengraver, born at Sissonne, near Laon, in 1574, died on the 8th of June, 1647. He married in 1600, Madeleine, the daughter of his master, the sculptor Barthélemy Prieur, who, like him, belonged to the reformed religion. As early as 1597, Henry IV., pleased with the medal representing him as Hercules with Gabrielle d'Estrées on R, gave him the title of Sculptor in ordinary to His Majesty, and Dupré records in the following terms his august p...
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DUPUIS, DANIEL JEAN-BAPTISTE
DUPUIS, DANIEL JEAN-BAPTISTE (French). Medallist, born at Blois on the 15th of February, 1849; died at Paris, on the 14th of November, 1899. He was received at the age of sixteen at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and obtained three years later the second Prix de Rome for medal- engraving; at the same time he was selected to the post of Drawing-master at the Municipal Schools of Paris. In 1872, he won the first Grand Prix de Rome. During his residence at Rome, the artist executed the portraits of his ...
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DUPUIS, DANIEL JEAN-BAPTISTE (French). Medallist, born at Blois on the 15th of February, 1849; died at Paris, on the 14th of November, 1899. He was received at the age of sixteen at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and obtained three years later the second Prix de Rome for medal- engraving; at the same time he was selected to the post of Drawing-master at the Municipal Schools of Paris. In 1872, he won the first Grand Prix de Rome. During his residence at Rome, the artist executed the portraits of his ...
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DUQUESNOY, JÉROME
DUQUESNOY, JÉROME (Belg.). Architect, Sculptor, and Medallist, born at Brussels in 1602, suffered capital punishment at Ghent on the 24th of October, 1654. Only one medal by him is known; it bears on obv. a portrait of Archduke Leopold William of Austria, and on R. an emblem consisting of a cross, a lion, a sheep, &c. and the inscription TIMORE DOMINI. The signature of the artist : HIER.DV QVESNOY.F. on the obv. leaves no doubt as to the authorship of the medal. Bibliography. — Pinchart, Biograp...
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DUQUESNOY, JÉROME (Belg.). Architect, Sculptor, and Medallist, born at Brussels in 1602, suffered capital punishment at Ghent on the 24th of October, 1654. Only one medal by him is known; it bears on obv. a portrait of Archduke Leopold William of Austria, and on R. an emblem consisting of a cross, a lion, a sheep, &c. and the inscription TIMORE DOMINI. The signature of the artist : HIER.DV QVESNOY.F. on the obv. leaves no doubt as to the authorship of the medal. Bibliography. — Pinchart, Biograp...
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DURAND, AMÉDÉE
DURAND, AMÉDÉE (French). Medallist, and Editor of Medals of the first half of the nineteenth century. He brought out the " Series Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium" between 1818 and 1846, and appears to have modelled or engraved the following medals : Coronation of George IV., 1820; — Death of George IV., 1830; — both signed DURAND F. — and Trial of Queen Caroline, 1820; — Lord Exmouth created Viscount after his bombardment of Algiers, 1816, signed A.D. The medals edited by him bear the...
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DURAND, AMÉDÉE (French). Medallist, and Editor of Medals of the first half of the nineteenth century. He brought out the " Series Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium" between 1818 and 1846, and appears to have modelled or engraved the following medals : Coronation of George IV., 1820; — Death of George IV., 1830; — both signed DURAND F. — and Trial of Queen Caroline, 1820; — Lord Exmouth created Viscount after his bombardment of Algiers, 1816, signed A.D. The medals edited by him bear the...
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