LAW, JOHN (Brit.). Financier, born at Edinburgh in 1681, died at Venice in 1729. He was made Comptroller-general of the finances of France, upon the strength of a scheme for establishing a bank, and an East India and a Mississipi Company, by the profits of which the national debt of France was to be paid off. Law's bank, which was opened in 1716, was declared a Royal bank in 1718, but in 1720 this fabric of false credit fell to the ground, spreading ruin throughout the country. Law initiated the coinage of the copper Sol, Half Sol, and Liard, in 1719. Bibliography. — Haydn, Dictionary of Dates. — Hoffmann, Monnaies royales de France, p. 193.
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
LAMBELET, SAMUEL
LAMBELET, SAMUEL (Germ.). Medallist of the latter end of the seventeenth century, and first three decades of the eighteenth, circ. 1698-1727. He was a native of Clausthal, but his family must have originally come from Neuchâtel. Previous to 1699 he may have worked for some time at Paris and is said to have been engaged on the medallic series of Louis XIV., as some of his signed medals show, and from 1699 to 1727 he was Medallist to the House of Brunswick- Lüneburg. Ammon calls him a clever Engra...
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LAMBELET, SAMUEL (Germ.). Medallist of the latter end of the seventeenth century, and first three decades of the eighteenth, circ. 1698-1727. He was a native of Clausthal, but his family must have originally come from Neuchâtel. Previous to 1699 he may have worked for some time at Paris and is said to have been engaged on the medallic series of Louis XIV., as some of his signed medals show, and from 1699 to 1727 he was Medallist to the House of Brunswick- Lüneburg. Ammon calls him a clever Engra...
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LAMBERT DE ROISIN
LAMBERT DE ROISIN (Belg.). Die-sinker of Brussels, born on 24 June 1808, who in 1847 submitted to the Belgian Monetary Commission a Pattern Five-Franc piece with bust of Leopold I. By him are also various commemorative medals : The Cholera Visitation at Namur, 1849 (2 var. ; one in Boston Colln); — Francois Gérard Pirson, 1848; — Provincial Exhibition of Namur, 1849 (sev. var.); — Francois Joseph Cornet, 1852 ; — To H. J. B. van de Resse, in commemoration of his services during the Cholera Epide...
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LAMBERT DE ROISIN (Belg.). Die-sinker of Brussels, born on 24 June 1808, who in 1847 submitted to the Belgian Monetary Commission a Pattern Five-Franc piece with bust of Leopold I. By him are also various commemorative medals : The Cholera Visitation at Namur, 1849 (2 var. ; one in Boston Colln); — Francois Gérard Pirson, 1848; — Provincial Exhibition of Namur, 1849 (sev. var.); — Francois Joseph Cornet, 1852 ; — To H. J. B. van de Resse, in commemoration of his services during the Cholera Epide...
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LAMBERT, GUSTAVE ALEXANDRE
LAMBERT, GUSTAVE ALEXANDRE (French). Sculptor, Gem-and Seal-engraver, and Medallist; born at Paris ; pupil of Bissinger'. He has exhibited since 1863, at the "Salon des Artistes francais", and was rewarded with a medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. Among his best known productions in the branch we are interested in, I may mention : 1879. Mars and Venus, intaglio in sardonyx; — Portrait of M. X***, intaglio in sardonyx ; — Narcissus, intaglio in cornelian; — 1880. Antinoüs, cameo in sardon...
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LAMBERT, GUSTAVE ALEXANDRE (French). Sculptor, Gem-and Seal-engraver, and Medallist; born at Paris ; pupil of Bissinger'. He has exhibited since 1863, at the "Salon des Artistes francais", and was rewarded with a medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. Among his best known productions in the branch we are interested in, I may mention : 1879. Mars and Venus, intaglio in sardonyx; — Portrait of M. X***, intaglio in sardonyx ; — Narcissus, intaglio in cornelian; — 1880. Antinoüs, cameo in sardon...
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LAMBERT, NICOLAS
LAMBERT, NICOLAS (French). Die-sinker of the first half of the nineteenth century. In an XI (1802) he took part in the competition for a new coinage, and submitted patterns for the Five-Franc piece (one illustrated), which however were not accepted. He also engraved some medals : Masonic medal ot the Lodge of Perfect Union of Perseverance, Paris, 1813 ; &c. He also engraved gems; his signature occurs on an intaglio representing the portrait of a Musician crowned with laurel and holding a lyre. B...
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LAMBERT, NICOLAS (French). Die-sinker of the first half of the nineteenth century. In an XI (1802) he took part in the competition for a new coinage, and submitted patterns for the Five-Franc piece (one illustrated), which however were not accepted. He also engraved some medals : Masonic medal ot the Lodge of Perfect Union of Perseverance, Paris, 1813 ; &c. He also engraved gems; his signature occurs on an intaglio representing the portrait of a Musician crowned with laurel and holding a lyre. B...
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