GLEICHEN,COUNTESS FEODORA (Brit.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist ; she exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1900 a bronze relief Memorial to the late General Sir Henry Ponsonby. She is a Member of the Society of Medallists, and at this Society's Exhibi- tion in 1897, her medallic productions were very much admired : The Shropshire Horticultural Society Medal ; — Portrait-medal of H.R.H. the Princess of Wales ; — Medal for the Royal Agricultu- ral Show at Windsor, 1889; — A Mirror; — Bas-relief in pewter, &c. At the Second Exhibition of the Society of Medallists, 1901 (November), I noticed the following exhibits : Portrait bust, Queen Victoria; — Joan of Arc; — Silver cup; — H. M. The Queen, when Princess of Wales (a medal) ; — A medal, Queen Victoria (lion, reverse). The following notice of Countess Gleichen's artistic activity is extracted from Mr. Spielmann's British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-day, 1901. "The Countess Gleichen was the pupil of her father, Prince Victor ot Hohenlohe, and of the Slade School at University College under Professor Legros, and completed her studies in Rome. Her chief work has been the life-size statue of Queen Victoria for the Jubilee Hospital, Montreal. It is an imaginative composition, in which the Sovereign is represented in royal robes, with a little child asleep at her knee, while on the opposite side, on the steps of the throne, another child stands with its arm in a sling. Shortly before her death Queen Victoria gave sittings to Countess Gleichen for"the bust now at the Cheltenham Ladies College. Besides these are the memorial to the artist's father in Sunningdale Church (near Windsor), and a bust of Queen Alexandra, when Princess of Wales (Royal Academy, 1895), now in possession of the Constitutional Club, London. In the same year a statuette of Lady Henry Bentinck was exhibited at the New Gallery, but it attracted less attention than the " Satan " shown at the Royal Acad- emy in 1894. This fanciful and weird design shows a scaly, armed and winged knight, seated on a throne tortuous with snakes. The work reveals undoubted skill and invention, although it is somewhat overloaded. The statue of "Peace" (1899) showed a much purer feeling ; and the beautiful hand-mirror of jade and bronze of the same period, which first appeared in the Royal Acad- emy and was sent to the Paris Exhibition of 1900, proved a great- er appreciation of design and decoration, and achieved a success commensurate with its considerable merit. There are also by Count- ess Gleichen a half-length figure of M. Kubelik, the violinist; a stone fountain with a life-size nude fieure of a nymph for a garden in Paris ; and another in bronze and coloured marbles with a figure of "Diana, for a garden near Ascot. It is no flattery to the Countess Gleichen to say that many sculp- tors, contributing to the exhibitions, have failed to produce work as good as her's. It is highly refined, with charming feeling, and if, as in " The Queen Alexandra", it is a little timid in treatment, we do not resent the weakness which savours of delicacy; for we like a woman's work to be effeminate. Countess Gleichen's early tendency to be too smoothed-down, technically called "soapy", practically disappeared with the advent of a more modern feeling. The lady's sculptural portraits are excellent likenesses, with the delightful merit of being elegant and distinguished. These include Mme Calvé, Mrs Walter Palmer,and Sir Henry Ponsonby as busts; several bas-reliets, of which one is a memorial to Sir Henry Pon- sonby, with figures in armour as supporters; and others are of children, in different materials. The silver statuette of a Madonna, in an agate and mosaic shrine, should not be passed over".
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
GEORGI, NIKOLAUS or NILS
GEORGI, NIKOLAUS or NILS (Swede). Medallist, born at Stock- holm on the 16th of August 1717, where he died on the 6th of April 1790. He was a pupil of the celebrated Hedlinger, under whom he worked for the Royal Mint at Stockolm. Between 1744 and 1746 he executed various medals for the Court of Russia; in 1747 he settled at Berlin, where he was appointed Königl. Hofmedailleur, and resided there until 1782, in which year he returned to Sweden. His series of medals commemorating remarkable events ...
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GEORGI, NIKOLAUS or NILS (Swede). Medallist, born at Stock- holm on the 16th of August 1717, where he died on the 6th of April 1790. He was a pupil of the celebrated Hedlinger, under whom he worked for the Royal Mint at Stockolm. Between 1744 and 1746 he executed various medals for the Court of Russia; in 1747 he settled at Berlin, where he was appointed Königl. Hofmedailleur, and resided there until 1782, in which year he returned to Sweden. His series of medals commemorating remarkable events ...
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GERARD, CHARLES LOUIS
GERARD, CHARLES LOUIS (French). Medallist and Gem-engraver of modern times. By him are the following works, which were exhibited at the annual Paris Salons : 1874. Hagar sent away by Abraham, after Van Dyck, carnelian cameo; — 1875. Perseus, after Benvenuto Cellini, cameo on sardonyx; — The favourite Sheep, after Boucher, cameo on carnelian; — 1876. The Lion of Florence, onyx cameo; — Jupiter, cameo on pietra dura; — 1877. Christ, cameo on agate; — 1878. Henry II. of France, cameo on carne- lian...
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GERARD, CHARLES LOUIS (French). Medallist and Gem-engraver of modern times. By him are the following works, which were exhibited at the annual Paris Salons : 1874. Hagar sent away by Abraham, after Van Dyck, carnelian cameo; — 1875. Perseus, after Benvenuto Cellini, cameo on sardonyx; — The favourite Sheep, after Boucher, cameo on carnelian; — 1876. The Lion of Florence, onyx cameo; — Jupiter, cameo on pietra dura; — 1877. Christ, cameo on agate; — 1878. Henry II. of France, cameo on carne- lian...
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GERBIER, LOUIS ADOLPHE
GERBIER, LOUIS ADOLPHE (French). Contemporary Medallist and Gem-engraver, born at Paris, pupil of M. Le Saché. The following works by him are mentioned in Chavignerie et Auvray's Dictionary: 1873. Portrait of M. E. de la Bédoli?re, cameo and silver medal; — Portrait of M. J. M**, cameo and silver medal; — 1874. Por- trait of Mme Adelina Patti, cameo, and silver medal; — 1876. Exhibition of Porto Rico, bronze medal; — "Le Conservateur " Assurance Company, bronze medal (in the Boston Collection); ...
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GERBIER, LOUIS ADOLPHE (French). Contemporary Medallist and Gem-engraver, born at Paris, pupil of M. Le Saché. The following works by him are mentioned in Chavignerie et Auvray's Dictionary: 1873. Portrait of M. E. de la Bédoli?re, cameo and silver medal; — Portrait of M. J. M**, cameo and silver medal; — 1874. Por- trait of Mme Adelina Patti, cameo, and silver medal; — 1876. Exhibition of Porto Rico, bronze medal; — "Le Conservateur " Assurance Company, bronze medal (in the Boston Collection); ...
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GERMAIN, PIERRE
GERMAIN, PIERRE (French). Goldsmith and Medal-engraver of the second halfaf the seventeenth century. He was born at Paris in 1645 and died thereon the 24th of September, 1684. The Paris Mint records show that an engraver of the name of Germain executed in 1678 and 1679 dies for the " Medallic History of Louis XIV ", and that he received, in two payments, the sum of 853 livres 2 sols. Whether this Germain, whose christian name is not given, is the same person as Pierre Germain, who at about the s...
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GERMAIN, PIERRE (French). Goldsmith and Medal-engraver of the second halfaf the seventeenth century. He was born at Paris in 1645 and died thereon the 24th of September, 1684. The Paris Mint records show that an engraver of the name of Germain executed in 1678 and 1679 dies for the " Medallic History of Louis XIV ", and that he received, in two payments, the sum of 853 livres 2 sols. Whether this Germain, whose christian name is not given, is the same person as Pierre Germain, who at about the s...
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