KARLSTEEN, ARFVID (Swede). (1654-1718). Vide Vol. I, p. 212. We read in Bolzenthal, p. 237 : " The Court of Stockholm employed an artist, Arvid Karlsten, who in his time received excessive distinction. Born at Karlskoga in Vermland, 1647, he had in his early youth made himself so well acquainted with the Art that he was enabled to pursue his studies in foreign countries; in Paris under Varin, and in London under John Roettier. After he had finished them, he obtained celebrity in Berlin and Dresden, but he however left Germany for love of his native country. He was much esteemed and was soon after raised to the nobility (1692); this he truly deserved as he was so much above his contemporaries. He highly respected his teacher Varin, although his style approaches in a singular manner to that of John Roettier. As to the excellence of his works, it appears to us that he was not equal to his countryman Raymund Faltz; but like him he excelled in engraving portraits, wherein both were wonderfully successful. Karlsten undertook a series of medals of the kings of Sweden, beginning with Gustavus Wasa and ending with Charles XII. They are about 2 inches in size. His remaining works relate to kings of Sweden, under whom he lived, to Louis XIV. of France, to the Elector Frederick III. of Brandenburg, to Ernest Augustus of Hanover, and to many private persons, &c. This artist was 64 years old when he died (1718). " Karlsteen's usual signature is AK. It occurs also on copper-plate engravings and miniature paintings. His medal series of Swedish Kings from Gustavus I. to Charles II. is well known. This celebrated artist is the author of the following medals : Gustavus I., War and Peace medals (4 var.); — Commemoration of the Reformation; — The King's son, hereditary Prince ; — Eric XIV., Naval Victory over the Danes ; — The King's Motto ; — Astrological Studies; — Abdication, 1568; — John III. , The two brothers John and Charles; — Coronation; — Sigismund of Poland, King of Sweden (2 var.); — Charles IX., Commemoration of the Confession of Augsburg; — The Constitution (2 var.); — Portrait-medal, dated 1606; — Gustav Adolphus II., Peace with Denmark; — Marriage with Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg; — Battle of Lützen; Accession of Queen Christina, Portrait-medal; — Christina, Accession; — Matri Castrorum ; — Naval Victory over the Danes, 1644 ; — Peace of Westphalia (2 var.); — Coronation 20. October 1650 (one variety illustrated) ; — The Queen at Upsala, 1654 (sev. var.) ; — Jonas Hambraeus ; — Portrait-medal, NEC . FALSO .NEC. ALIENO ; Another, NE.MI.BISOGNA.NE.MI.BASTA; — Another, SVFFICIT; — Charles X. Gustavus, Marriage with Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp at Stockholm, 24. October 1654 ; — The King's Journey to Zeeland with the Crown Prince, 1658 (5 var.); — Peace with Denmark, 26. February 1658 (3 var.); — Death at Göteborg, 13. February 1660; — Portrait-medal; — Charles Gustavus, Hedvig Eleonora and Charles XI. (2 var.) ; — Hedvig Eleonora, as Queen Regent ; — Peace of Oliva ; — Peace of Kardis ; — 74th Birthday ; — Portrait-medal; — The Queen and her son Charles XI; — Charles XI., The King receives the Order of the Garter, 1669; — Beginning of reign, 18. December 1672 (3 var.), R. LVSTRATIS FINIBVS (sev. var.); — Coronation at Upsala, 28. September 1675 (8 var.); — Victory over the Danes at Lund, 4. December 1676 (7 var.) ; — Victories over the Danes at Halmstad, Lund and Landskrona (2 var.) ; — Peace with Denmark and Betrothal of the King with Princess Ulrica Eleonora, 1679 (3 var.) ; — Sweden's Prospe rity under King Charles XI. (6 var.); — Marriage of the King with Princess Ulrica Eleonora, 6 May, 1680; — Birth of Prince Charles, 17. June 1682 ; — Opening of the Riksdag, 7. October 1682 (2 var.); — Birth of Prince Gustavus, 1683 ; — The King's Visit to the Silver mines at Sahlberg, 1687 (3var.); — Sweden's Prosperity and Independence, 1687 (6 var.); — The Royal Castle at Stockholm, 1692; — Jubilee Festivities at Upsala, 1693 (3 var-); — The King's Visit to Vesterbotten to see the midnight sun, 1694 (2 var.); — Death of the King at Stockholm, 5. April 1697, and funeral, 24. November (5 var.) ; — Portrait-medal of Charles XL; — Portrait-medal of the King and Queen (5 var.); — Ulrica Eleonora, her Arrival in Sweden, 1680 (2 var.) ; — Coronation at Stockholm 25. November 1680; — The Queen's good qualities and virtue (6 var.) ; — Death at Carlberg Castle, 26. July 1693, and Burial, 28. November (7 var.); — Charles XII., His Childhood, 1688 (2 var.) ; — Peace of Ryswik, 1697 (2 var.); — Coronation, 14. December 1697 (8 var.); — Gaming counter; — Peace with Denmark, 18. August 1700 ; — Victory over the Russians at Narva, 1700 (4 var.); — The King's campaign against Frederick IV. of Denmark, Augustus I. of Poland and the Czar Peter I. of Russia ; The King's army near Riga, 9. July 1701 ; — Victory over the Saxons and Poles at Klissow, 1702; — Victory over the Saxons and Lithuanians at Pultousk, 1703; — Thorn opens its gates to the Swedish army ; — The Swedish army under the command of Count Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, 1705 ; — The Swedish army under the command of Count Carl Gustaf Rehnsköld defeats the Saxons and Poles at Fraustadt, 3. February 1706; — Peace of Alt-Ranstadt, 14. September 1706; — The King restores the Reformed Church in Silesia, 1707-8; — The blooming Aloe; — Sweden's glorious successes, &c. To Karlsteen belong also the following medals : Prince Elector Anselm Franz Baron von Ingelheim, Archbishop of Mayence; — Delimitation of the frontier between Brandenburg and Brunswick, with bust of George William, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, 1699 ; — El. Brenner, Swedish numismatist and miniature-painter; — Marriage of Prince Elector Ernest Augustus of Brunswick with Sophia, Princess Palatine, 1658; — Prize Medal of Brunswick, with bust of Duke Ernest Augustus, 1691. R. EN. LABOR. EN PR?MIVM ; — Medal on the Death of Duke Ernest Augustus, 1698; — Marriage of Sophie Charlotte, daughter of Duke Ernest Augustus, with Frederick I. of Prussia, 1691 (2 var.) ; — Medal on the Death of Prince Charles Philip of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the War against the Turks, 1690; — Urban Hiaerne, 1682; — Dr Christian Constantin Rumpf, Stockholm, 1681 ; — Dr Matthias Riben, of Stockholm, 1712 ; — Dr Urban Hjierne, 1702 ; — Hevelius, the astronomer ; — John Calvin ; — Martin Luther (sev. var.) ; — Peace of Travendal between Sweden and Denmark, 1700, &c. In 1687, the artist was paid 759 livres by the Paris Medal Mint for dies supplied from Stockholm (3 obvs. and 3 Rs. of medals). Ammon states that Karlsteen was first apprenticed at the Stockolm mint, and that some of his first productions were coin-dies for the mint of Alvesta. According to the same authority, he learned engraving in steel from a Knight at the Danish Court, H. Von Falkenstein. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Lohner, Sauimltnig merkwürdiger Medaillen. — Menadier, Schaumünzen des Hauses Hohenzollern, 1901. — Franks & Grueber, Medallic Illustrations, Sec. — Various Sale Catalogues. — J. J. Guiffrey, La Monnaie des Médailles, Revue numismatique, 1887. — Ammon, Sammlung berühmter Medailleurs, 1778. — Köhler, Münzbelustigungen. — Numophyl. Burckh.. — Flad, Berühmte Medailleurs.
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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