LEGROS, ALPHONSE (French). Contemporary Painter, Sculptor and Medallist, born at Dijon, on the 8th May 1837; pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; medals in 1867 and 1868 ; former Slade Professor in University College, London, 1876- 1894; President of the Society of Medallists. The artist " had no assistance in his education, and encountered many hardships before he was able to send a picture to the Salon ; it was a portrait of his father, exhibited in 1857 ". In 1859, " The Angelus " attracted much attention, and in 1861 appeared the " Ex Voto ", belonging to the Dijon gallery. " Since 1863 Legros has resided in England, where he has received the honour and patronage which he failed to obtain in Paris, and this consideration has at length extended itself to his native country". “ On his arrival in London, says M. Leonce Bénédite, Legros found himself on almost virgin soil, which it delighted him to clear and to cultivate. To this task he devoted more than twenty years of his life, sacrificing his own work, with its prospects of success and other more material advantages, to this labour. Whether in painting or in etching (he restored to his place of honour, next to Rembrandt, our great Meryon, whose influence is to be seen in every modern English plate), or in medal-work (which he again brought in touch with Pisanello), or in statuary (he made one feel and love and better understand the divine genius of antiquity), Legros — aided by his friend Lantéri, the modest and learned sculptor — teaching at South Kensington, exercised a profound and a real influence by means of his solid, practical and methodical instruction, by force of his own work, so sober, thoughtful, lofty, grave and even austere, and by dint of studying and admiring the great masters, and noting attentively the grand principles by which they were inspired. " (Studio, XXIX, 4.) The following Portrait-medallions, all cast in bronze, are executed in the manner of Pisanello. " La série de ses médailles, d'un travail gras et libre, proclame sans conteste le culte voué ? Pisano". Roger Marx, Gaz. des Beaux-Arts, 1904, I, 328) : Charles Robert Darwin, 1881 ; signed A. L. ; 4.5 in. (the first medallion made by the artist) ; — Thomas Carlyle (1881).
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
LAUER, HANS CHRISTOPH
LAUER, HANS CHRISTOPH (Germ.). Mint-master at Nuremberg, 1623-1639 (Kull, II, 710). Lauer was a Goldsmith by profession, and according to Gebert, he applied for the post of Master of the Mint in October 1618, and already in the same year, on the 9. December, he was entrusted with the issue of 150 Goldgulden for Würzburg, which bear his distinctive mark, a star. In 1619, Lauer restruck a large number of foreign gold coins into Nuremberg Goldgulden; again in 1620, and 1621, he was ordered to coin ...
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LAUER, HANS CHRISTOPH (Germ.). Mint-master at Nuremberg, 1623-1639 (Kull, II, 710). Lauer was a Goldsmith by profession, and according to Gebert, he applied for the post of Master of the Mint in October 1618, and already in the same year, on the 9. December, he was entrusted with the issue of 150 Goldgulden for Würzburg, which bear his distinctive mark, a star. In 1619, Lauer restruck a large number of foreign gold coins into Nuremberg Goldgulden; again in 1620, and 1621, he was ordered to coin ...
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LAUER, LUDWIG CHRISTOPH
LAUER, LUDWIG CHRISTOPH (Germ.). Die-sinking establishment, founded in 1729, and reconstructed in 1860 under the style of “ Münz-Präge Anstalt L. Chr. Lauer", Kleinweidenmühle No. 12, Nuremberg. Begun in modest circumstances, the Lauer business was first developed by Johann Jakob Lauer, 1788-1863, son of Ernst-Ludwig Sigmund Lauer, but the real genius, who gave the establishment its present importance, was Ludwig Christoph Lauer. The vast improvements, both mechanical and artistic, which he intr...
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LAUER, LUDWIG CHRISTOPH (Germ.). Die-sinking establishment, founded in 1729, and reconstructed in 1860 under the style of “ Münz-Präge Anstalt L. Chr. Lauer", Kleinweidenmühle No. 12, Nuremberg. Begun in modest circumstances, the Lauer business was first developed by Johann Jakob Lauer, 1788-1863, son of Ernst-Ludwig Sigmund Lauer, but the real genius, who gave the establishment its present importance, was Ludwig Christoph Lauer. The vast improvements, both mechanical and artistic, which he intr...
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LAUFFER, CARL GOTTLIEB
LAUFFER, CARL GOTTLIEB (Germ.). Mint-master at Nuremberg, 1746- 1755. Franks & Grueber call him an Engraver (Vide Med. Ill., II, 730). A Thaler of Hall (Suabia), 1746, is signed C.G.L. It is probable that all the Lauffers, whose names I record here, had connection with die-sinking, and were Counter-manufacturers by trade. Carl Gottlieb Lauffer was a son of Caspar Gottlieb Lauffer, and is said to have left Nuremberg, a bankrupt, for Berlin, in 1755, where he was still living in 1769, and attained...
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LAUFFER, CARL GOTTLIEB (Germ.). Mint-master at Nuremberg, 1746- 1755. Franks & Grueber call him an Engraver (Vide Med. Ill., II, 730). A Thaler of Hall (Suabia), 1746, is signed C.G.L. It is probable that all the Lauffers, whose names I record here, had connection with die-sinking, and were Counter-manufacturers by trade. Carl Gottlieb Lauffer was a son of Caspar Gottlieb Lauffer, and is said to have left Nuremberg, a bankrupt, for Berlin, in 1755, where he was still living in 1769, and attained...
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LAUFFER, CASPAR GOTTLIEB
LAUFFER, CASPAR GOTTLIEB (Germ.). Son of Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer; Mint-master at Nuremberg, ana Mint-warden to the District of Franconia, 1700-1745. Franks & Grueber mention that "he appears to be often confused with Carl Gottlieb Lauffer, the engraver ", and give the description of a medal, issued by him, on the Capture of Tournay, 1709, engraved by Martin Brunner, and bearing the initials C.G.L. Caspar Gottlieb Lauffer published in 1742 a Catalogue of medals issued by him, in conjunction prob...
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LAUFFER, CASPAR GOTTLIEB (Germ.). Son of Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer; Mint-master at Nuremberg, ana Mint-warden to the District of Franconia, 1700-1745. Franks & Grueber mention that "he appears to be often confused with Carl Gottlieb Lauffer, the engraver ", and give the description of a medal, issued by him, on the Capture of Tournay, 1709, engraved by Martin Brunner, and bearing the initials C.G.L. Caspar Gottlieb Lauffer published in 1742 a Catalogue of medals issued by him, in conjunction prob...
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