JONGHELINCK, JACQUES (Belg.). Medallist, Seal-engraver, Sculptor and Caster of bronze statues, born at Antwerp, 21. October 1530, died there, 31. May 1606. As early as 1556, he was entrusted with the cutting of seals for various chanceries of Philip II. 's government and, in 1559, he executed the monument erected at Bruges to the memory of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. He is also the author of a colossal statue of the Duke of Alva in the centre of Antwerp citadel, which was destroyed some years later by the infuriated mob. Jonghelinck owned the title of Sculptor, Metal-founder and Seal-engraver to the King, an appointment which he preserved under the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. By this artist are the following medals : 1555. Charles V. and Philip II., signed on R. IONGELI. F. (Van Mieris t. Ill, p. 408.) No specimen has been met with. This medal was executed at Antwerp by Jacques Jonghelinck. It was issued when Charles V. resigned his dominions to his son Philip, who assumed the title of King of Spain, 24 March 1555-6, the day on which he was solemnly proclaimed at Valladolid ; — 1557. Another, with similar obv. and different portrait of Philip II., and same signature (several varieties, Vide Medallic Illustrations, I, p. 82, nos 42-45); — Another, with a third portrait of Philip II., bust to I. ; legend : PHILIPPVS.HISPANIAR.ET.NOVI ORBIS OCCIDVI.REX (Van Loon, t. I, p. 8); — 1557. Siege of St. Quentin, obv. Bust of Philip. II. ; on truncation : IONGELI F. R. Medallion with full face bust of St. Quentin ; across the field, a long inscription, ANNO M.D.LVII QVARTO ID &c. (Van Mieris III, 408; Med. Illust., I, p. 83, n° 47 ; there is a variety in the Brit. Mus Collection, illustrated); — Another, on the same event, with similar bust of Philip II., but inscription on R. in German; — Philip II. and Margaret of Parma, obv. as R. of last; R. MARGARETA. AB. AVSTRIA.D.P.ET P.GERM.INFER.G. (Van Loon, t. 1, p. 38); — Philip II. and the Duke of Alva, obv. PHILIPVS II.HISPAN. ET NOVI ORBIS OCCIDVI REX. R. FERDIN. TOLET ALBAE. DVX.BELG PRAEF 1567. Bust to r. ; on truncation ; AET. 45 .R. FAVENTE.DEO. Female figure, holding sword, palm and olive-sprigs, stands on rock amidst stormy sea; dated 1567 [attributed to Jonghelinck by Dr Solone Ambrosoli in Rapport du Congris international de numismatique, 1891, p. 69 ; a specimen was purchased by Herr Consul Bodmer of Zurich at Hamburger's Sale of April 1900 (Raritäten-Cabinet, IV. Theil) for 810 Marks ; another occurred in the Felix Sale (lot 26) ; and it is also described in Van Loon, t. I, p. 87]. The medals of Charles V. and Philip II. date from the years 1555 to 1557 ; they are cast and chased, like all the artist's other medals. According to Pinchart, several other medals may be ascribed to Jacques Jonghelinck. I give here his reduced list, as published in Histoire de la Gravure des Médailles en Belgique, 1870. None of these medals are signed. 1558. Jérôme de Serooskerke. R. DVM SPIRITVS HOS REGET ARTVS. Standing female figure holding a cup in her 1. hand (Van Loon, t. I, p. 208); — 1559. Jean Van den Broeck, Almoner general of Antwerp R. CHARITAS . OMNIA . SVFFERT Mother suckling her child, two children embracing each other and a third playing with a dog ; — Jean Van den Broeck and his consort Bianca Pausana Cariania (Revue de la num. belge, t. II, PI VIII, p. 240). These four medals Pinchart believes to be Jonghelinck's work, but he hesitates somewhat in the correct attribution of the few following, which present a strong analogy in design and treatment with the Medallist's signed productions : 1556. Two medals of Viglius de Zuichem, President of the Privy Council R. VITA.MORTALIVM.VIGILIA. (a.) Table on which books, hour-glass and lighted candle ; (b.)shield of arms; — 1559. Christophe d'Assonville, Member of the Privy Council R. 'EMOY ?E?- The Three Ages of Fate (Van Loon, p. 268); — 1560. Antoine Perrenot, Bishop of Arras R. DVRATE. Ship in danger of sinking and Neptune armed with trident (Van Loon, p. 43); — 1565. Three medals of Antoine Van Stralen, Burgomaster of Antwerp ; — 1566. Josse de Damhoudere, a celebrated lawyer (Van Loon, I, p. 40); — 1568 Two other medals of Viglius de Zuichem; — 1569. BenoÎt Arias, a theologian R. Nude male figure (Archimedes) running, with open book inscribed EYPHKA (Van Loon, p. 136). Domanig (Porträt-medaillen des Erzhauses Oesterreich, p. 7), describes a Portrait-medal of Archduke Albert, dated 1601, which he suggests may be by Jonghelinck, but I fear this attribution is not correct, although the artist is known to have engraved the seals of the Archduke and his consort. As a Seal-engraver, Jonghelinck executed the Seal of the Order of the Golden Fleece, in 1556, when he was only 25 years old, the seal and signet for the Chancery of Guelders, the seal for Brabant, 1559, that for Burgundy, 1569, those of the three states of the County of Namur, and many others, down to 1600, at which time he was assisted in his work by his nephew Sigebert Waterloos, who succeeded him as Seal-engraver to the Archdukes. On December 17, 1572, Jonghelinck wasappointed Mint-warden at Antwerp, an appointment which the Duke of Parma confirmed to him in 1585. A document of 1598 records a payment of 148 livres 15 sous 9 deniers made to the artist on account of four medals in gold which he was ordered to execute for the Archduke Albert. Jonghelinck, suggests Pinchart, may have been a pupil of one of the celebrated Italian medallists who worked in the Netherlands towards the end of Charles V.'s reign, such as Leone Leoni, Jacopo da Trezzo, Poggini and others. He is, without doubt, one of the foremost sixteenth century Medallists of his country. Bibliography. — A. Pinchart, Jacques Jonghelinck, Revue de la num. belge, 1854, p. 209. — Do, Histoire de la Gravure des Medailles en Belgique, Bruxelles, 1870. — Franks & Grueber, Medallic Illustrations ?. — Various Sale Catalogues. — Domanig, op. cit. — Catalogus der Nederlandsche en op Nederland betrekking hebbende Gedenkpenningen, s' Gravenhage, 1903.
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
JOHN, WILLIAM GOSCOMBE
JOHN, WILLIAM GOSCOMBE (Brit.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born at Cardiff; Associate of the Royal Academy. “The son of the sculptural carver to the late Marquess of Bute, Mr. John early followed his father's craft ", says Mr. Spielmann. “ In 1882 he left Cardiff for London, obtained employment with Farmer and Brindley's, and attended Mr. Frith's class at Lambeth. In 1884 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, but, after a successful career, he failed to secure the gold medal with his g...
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JOHN, WILLIAM GOSCOMBE (Brit.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born at Cardiff; Associate of the Royal Academy. “The son of the sculptural carver to the late Marquess of Bute, Mr. John early followed his father's craft ", says Mr. Spielmann. “ In 1882 he left Cardiff for London, obtained employment with Farmer and Brindley's, and attended Mr. Frith's class at Lambeth. In 1884 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, but, after a successful career, he failed to secure the gold medal with his g...
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JOHNSON, STEFANO
JOHNSON, STEFANO (Ital.). Die-sinking establishment at Milan, founded in 1868 by Stefano Johnson, father of the actual proprietor, Commendatore Federigo Johnson, who since 1880, has the complete direction of the Works, and who gave the firm its present importance and extension. Furnished with up-to-date machinery, a reducing-machine of the latest type and a chemical laboratory for the colouring of metals, the Johnson works are able to cope with the keenest competition inland and abroad. Not a sm...
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JOHNSON, STEFANO (Ital.). Die-sinking establishment at Milan, founded in 1868 by Stefano Johnson, father of the actual proprietor, Commendatore Federigo Johnson, who since 1880, has the complete direction of the Works, and who gave the firm its present importance and extension. Furnished with up-to-date machinery, a reducing-machine of the latest type and a chemical laboratory for the colouring of metals, the Johnson works are able to cope with the keenest competition inland and abroad. Not a sm...
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JONES, JOHN
JONES, JOHN (Brit.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, who died at Dublin, circa 1880. " He would deserve slight notice except for his continuing to strike medals trom Mossop's designs and dies after the death of that artist. He is reported to have come from Liverpool, and commenced his career by pulling the rope for Mossop's Coining press. At one period of his life he went to America and made some money. Strange stories are told of the mode in which he dissipated his earnings ". The followin...
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JONES, JOHN (Brit.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, who died at Dublin, circa 1880. " He would deserve slight notice except for his continuing to strike medals trom Mossop's designs and dies after the death of that artist. He is reported to have come from Liverpool, and commenced his career by pulling the rope for Mossop's Coining press. At one period of his life he went to America and made some money. Strange stories are told of the mode in which he dissipated his earnings ". The followin...
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JONGHELINCK, JACQUES
JONGHELINCK, JACQUES (Belg.). Medallist, Seal-engraver, Sculptor and Caster of bronze statues, born at Antwerp, 21. October 1530, died there, 31. May 1606. As early as 1556, he was entrusted with the cutting of seals for various chanceries of Philip II. 's government and, in 1559, he executed the monument erected at Bruges to the memory of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. He is also the author of a colossal statue of the Duke of Alva in the centre of Antwerp citadel, which was destroyed some ...
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JONGHELINCK, JACQUES (Belg.). Medallist, Seal-engraver, Sculptor and Caster of bronze statues, born at Antwerp, 21. October 1530, died there, 31. May 1606. As early as 1556, he was entrusted with the cutting of seals for various chanceries of Philip II. 's government and, in 1559, he executed the monument erected at Bruges to the memory of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. He is also the author of a colossal statue of the Duke of Alva in the centre of Antwerp citadel, which was destroyed some ...
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