HERRERA, FRANCISCO DE (Span.). A distinguished Spanish Painter, 1576-1656, founder ofthe "Seville school", born at Seville. His finest paintings include "The Last Judgment " and a "Holy Family ", both in churches at Seville ; others are in the Louvre, Paris. His name, unfortunately, is known in numismatics, as an artist who employed his talent in the coinage of false money. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit.
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
HEEL, JOHANN
HEEL, JOHANN (Germ.). Bolzenthal gives the following notice of this Engraver, who worked during the second half of the seventeenth century, and died in 1709. "Johann Heel of Augsburg established himself in Nuremberg for some time ; he was an excellent goldsmith, and Doppelmayr expressly places him among the casters of coins, without however mentioning any of his works. We are inclined to agree with Möhsen, and to consider Heel as the author of a medal with the portrait of the physician Gregor Hi...
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HEEL, JOHANN (Germ.). Bolzenthal gives the following notice of this Engraver, who worked during the second half of the seventeenth century, and died in 1709. "Johann Heel of Augsburg established himself in Nuremberg for some time ; he was an excellent goldsmith, and Doppelmayr expressly places him among the casters of coins, without however mentioning any of his works. We are inclined to agree with Möhsen, and to consider Heel as the author of a medal with the portrait of the physician Gregor Hi...
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HEIOS
HEIOS. A fictitious signature of a Greek Gem-engraver, found on modern gems : Diana the huntress, sard (Stosch); — Dying Amazon, sard (Raspe) ; — Head of youth with curly hair, sard (Lord Greville) ; — Minerva, nicolo (Raspe); — Ulysses and Diomede killing Dolon (Blacas). Bibliography. — Babelon, La Gravure en pierres fines, Paris, 1894. — A. Furtvängler, Studien über die Gemmen mit Künstlerinschriften, in Iahrbuch des Kais. Deutsch. Archaeol. Inslituts, 1888-9. — C. W. King, Antique Gems, i860....
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HEIOS. A fictitious signature of a Greek Gem-engraver, found on modern gems : Diana the huntress, sard (Stosch); — Dying Amazon, sard (Raspe) ; — Head of youth with curly hair, sard (Lord Greville) ; — Minerva, nicolo (Raspe); — Ulysses and Diomede killing Dolon (Blacas). Bibliography. — Babelon, La Gravure en pierres fines, Paris, 1894. — A. Furtvängler, Studien über die Gemmen mit Künstlerinschriften, in Iahrbuch des Kais. Deutsch. Archaeol. Inslituts, 1888-9. — C. W. King, Antique Gems, i860....
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HELD, AUGUST LUDWIG
HELD, AUGUST LUDWIG (Germ.). Medallist of the early part ot the nineteenth century. He was born in 1805, and died quite young, on 17. September 1839. " He has left a considerable number of works", says Bolzenthal, " in which some richness of composition is to be observed ; he was however too rapid to be able to execute anything important. " He resided at Berlin, but came from Altenburg, and worked for Gottfried Bernhard Loos. Ludwig Held's signature occurs on the following medals which have come...
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HELD, AUGUST LUDWIG (Germ.). Medallist of the early part ot the nineteenth century. He was born in 1805, and died quite young, on 17. September 1839. " He has left a considerable number of works", says Bolzenthal, " in which some richness of composition is to be observed ; he was however too rapid to be able to execute anything important. " He resided at Berlin, but came from Altenburg, and worked for Gottfried Bernhard Loos. Ludwig Held's signature occurs on the following medals which have come...
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HELD, JOHANN (2.)
HELD, JOHANN (Germ.). Son of the last, born in 1734; died on October 17, 1808, at Kreutzburg. Medallist to the Breslau Mint, where he first worked with his father, as early as 1768. He is the author of the following medals : General von Farrat; — Christian Garve, Philosopher; — Prince Hohenlohe; — Hönicke; — Minister von Hoyen ; — Christian L. Ludovici ; — Bernhard von Sternenheim of Brieg, 1771 ; — General von Tauentzien ; — Weger ; — Extinction of the Piasts, 1775 ; — Medal of Ölf, 1768, &c. B...
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HELD, JOHANN (Germ.). Son of the last, born in 1734; died on October 17, 1808, at Kreutzburg. Medallist to the Breslau Mint, where he first worked with his father, as early as 1768. He is the author of the following medals : General von Farrat; — Christian Garve, Philosopher; — Prince Hohenlohe; — Hönicke; — Minister von Hoyen ; — Christian L. Ludovici ; — Bernhard von Sternenheim of Brieg, 1771 ; — General von Tauentzien ; — Weger ; — Extinction of the Piasts, 1775 ; — Medal of Ölf, 1768, &c. B...
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