INGRAM, THOMAS WELLS (Brit.). Engraver and Die-sinker, employed at the Soho Mint, Birmingham. He worked from about 1820 to 1865 (Grueber, Med. III., II, 728). His signature, which usually occurs in full, is found, amongst others, on the following medals : Establishment of the Shakspearean Club, with bust of Shakespeare, 1824; — Medal of the Glasgow Band of Hope Union ; — Memorial of the Premiership of George Canning, 1827; — John Hodgson, 1830; — Canova, 1823; — Memorial Medal of George III. 's Thanksgiving at St. Paul's, 1789; — Medal struck to commemorate the successful vindication of the public right of way on the banks of the Clyde, 1829, &c. Ingram contributed to Thomason's series of Great Men, &c. Bibliography. — Franks & Grueber, op. cit. — Cochran-Patrick, op. cit. — Num. Chron., 1888, 1892.
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
CHAUDET, ANTOINE DENIS
CHAUDET, ANTOINE DENIS (French). Sculptor and Painter, 1763- 1810. His bust of Napoleon I. was used by Andrieu, and afterwards by Droz, on these artists' medals for the profile portrait of the Emperor. He also designed the reverses of the following Napoleonic medals: An XII, The Senate and the People; — 1805, Taking of Presbourg; — Capitulation of Berlin, Warsaw and Koenigsberg; — Distribution of Eagles to the Army ; .— Preserving Fortune, etc. Bibliography. — Blanchet, op. cit., II, p. 389. — R...
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CHAUDET, ANTOINE DENIS (French). Sculptor and Painter, 1763- 1810. His bust of Napoleon I. was used by Andrieu, and afterwards by Droz, on these artists' medals for the profile portrait of the Emperor. He also designed the reverses of the following Napoleonic medals: An XII, The Senate and the People; — 1805, Taking of Presbourg; — Capitulation of Berlin, Warsaw and Koenigsberg; — Distribution of Eagles to the Army ; .— Preserving Fortune, etc. Bibliography. — Blanchet, op. cit., II, p. 389. — R...
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CHAUTARD, VICTOR SAINT-JUST
CHAUTARD, VICTOR SAINT-JUST (French). Contemporary Medallist, and pupil of Guillaume, and Ponscarme. The following medals by him were exhibited at the Salons between 1870 and 1880 : Graziella; — Théophile Gauthier; — F. Maréchal, late Mayor of Metz (2 var.); — Auber; — Félicien David ; — Pygmalion; — Mme X*** ; — Commemorative medal of the building of the Trocadéro at Paris; — The French Republic ; — Jules Grévy, President of the French Republic ; and several other medallions. Bibliography. — Ch...
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CHAUTARD, VICTOR SAINT-JUST (French). Contemporary Medallist, and pupil of Guillaume, and Ponscarme. The following medals by him were exhibited at the Salons between 1870 and 1880 : Graziella; — Théophile Gauthier; — F. Maréchal, late Mayor of Metz (2 var.); — Auber; — Félicien David ; — Pygmalion; — Mme X*** ; — Commemorative medal of the building of the Trocadéro at Paris; — The French Republic ; — Jules Grévy, President of the French Republic ; and several other medallions. Bibliography. — Ch...
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CHAVANNE, JEAN MARIE
CHAVANNE, JEAN MARIE (French). Medallist of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century, born at Lyons in 1766. He produced a number of interesting medals, relating to events of the Consulate and the Empire, as well as a series of jetons, some of the best known being that of the Medical Society of Lyons, with head of Hippocrates on obv. and the signature CHAVANNE F., and others of the Lyonnese Society of Friends of Commerce and Arts, and of the Pharmaceutical Society of the...
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CHAVANNE, JEAN MARIE (French). Medallist of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century, born at Lyons in 1766. He produced a number of interesting medals, relating to events of the Consulate and the Empire, as well as a series of jetons, some of the best known being that of the Medical Society of Lyons, with head of Hippocrates on obv. and the signature CHAVANNE F., and others of the Lyonnese Society of Friends of Commerce and Arts, and of the Pharmaceutical Society of the...
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CHAVANNES, PUVIS DE
CHAVANNES, PUVIS DE (French). Contemporary Painter. "M. Puvis de Chavannes", says a writer in the Athenaeum, " has not long survived Sir E. Burne Jones, to whom Frenchmen were fond of comparing him, although there was really little similarity between them, for the one was essentially a far-away descendant of the later Renaissance in which the influence of the classical revival predominated, and the other distinctly derived his style from the earlier Renaissance, when the elements of romance and ...
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CHAVANNES, PUVIS DE (French). Contemporary Painter. "M. Puvis de Chavannes", says a writer in the Athenaeum, " has not long survived Sir E. Burne Jones, to whom Frenchmen were fond of comparing him, although there was really little similarity between them, for the one was essentially a far-away descendant of the later Renaissance in which the influence of the classical revival predominated, and the other distinctly derived his style from the earlier Renaissance, when the elements of romance and ...
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