MACKENZIE (Brit.). Medallist and Engraver, who presumably resided at Lucknow, towards the end of the eighteenth century. His name occurs in full on School Prize Medals (1.65 in), and medallic double and single Rupees, with General Claude Martin's bust, the founder of the Martiniere Schools. Although unsigned, the smaller medal (of the size and weight of a Rupee), is undoubtedly by the same engraver. These medals occur in gold, silver and copper. One side has the General's bust and motto, the other a Persian inscription with title. The work is exceptionally good (Vide C. J. Rodgers, Coin-collecting in Northern India, Allahabad, 1894.) Claude Martin, a French adventurer, was born at Lyons in January 1732, and died near Lucknow, 13. September 1800. He distinguished himself first under Count de Lally, the French commander in India and Governor of Pondicherry, then he enlisted in the service of the East India Company, as chief of a company of French deserters. Later, he became a favourite ot Sidi-ed-Daulah, king of Oudh, and amassed a colossal fortune. The splendour, of his palace at Constantia, near Lucknow, was proverbial. In 1796 he was appointed Major General in the East India Co. He founded several schools, known under the name of Martini?re Schools, at Lyons, Calcutta, Chandernagor, and Lucknow, some of which still exist. The medals above-described were intended as Prizes for the encouragement of study and diligence at those schools. Tradition, has ascribed to General Martin the issue of a number of imitation zodiacal half Rupees, which were evidently not intended to pass as counterfeit money, but merely struck as ornaments, Marsden however denies the General's connection with these forgeries; on the authority of Martin's personal friends (Marsden, Numismata Orientalia, II, p. 615. — Stanley Lane-Poole, The Coins of the Moghul Emperors of Hindustan in the British Museum, London, 1892, p. LXXXIV).
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
LORENZ, CARL HEINRICH
LORENZ, CARL HEINRICH (Germ.). Medallist and Coin-engraver, born at Berlin on the 24th of August 1810; died in the seventies. He studied first at the Berlin Academy, then at Vienna, visited Italy, and returned to Berlin, where he was working up to 1848, when he obtained employment as Engraver and Medallist to the Mint of Altona, from the Danish government. From 1859 to 1861 he filled the post of Chief Medallist at St. Petersburg, and definitely settled at Hamburg towards the end of 1861. For som...
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LORENZ, CARL HEINRICH (Germ.). Medallist and Coin-engraver, born at Berlin on the 24th of August 1810; died in the seventies. He studied first at the Berlin Academy, then at Vienna, visited Italy, and returned to Berlin, where he was working up to 1848, when he obtained employment as Engraver and Medallist to the Mint of Altona, from the Danish government. From 1859 to 1861 he filled the post of Chief Medallist at St. Petersburg, and definitely settled at Hamburg towards the end of 1861. For som...
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LORENZ, JOHANN JACOB
LORENZ, JOHANN JACOB (Germ.). Medallist to the Mint of Hamburg, born at Berlin, 24. June 1845, died 29. August 1887. He was the son of the medallist Carl Heinrich Lorenz, from whom he received his first tuition. From 1864 to 1867, he was a student at the Berlin Royal Academy of Arts, and while residing in the Prussian capital he occasionally worked for the Loos Medallic Mint. He then visited Dresden and was employed there by the Courtmedallist Friedrich Hermann Jahn. By the end of 1868 we find h...
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LORENZ, JOHANN JACOB (Germ.). Medallist to the Mint of Hamburg, born at Berlin, 24. June 1845, died 29. August 1887. He was the son of the medallist Carl Heinrich Lorenz, from whom he received his first tuition. From 1864 to 1867, he was a student at the Berlin Royal Academy of Arts, and while residing in the Prussian capital he occasionally worked for the Loos Medallic Mint. He then visited Dresden and was employed there by the Courtmedallist Friedrich Hermann Jahn. By the end of 1868 we find h...
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LORENZO DE' MEDICI
LORENZO DE' MEDICI, surnamed the Magnificent, Ruler of Florence, 1469-1492, and the greatest Patron of Art that ever lived. He gathered around him all the most renowned painters, sculptors, gem-engravers, literati and poets of his time. At his court at Florence, Michel Angelo essayed the first strokes of his chisel, and many artists, amongst them, Brunelleschi and Donatello, owed their prosperity to the protection of this enlightened Prince. "Laurent", says Müntz (Histoire de l'Art, vol. I, p. 5...
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LORENZO DE' MEDICI, surnamed the Magnificent, Ruler of Florence, 1469-1492, and the greatest Patron of Art that ever lived. He gathered around him all the most renowned painters, sculptors, gem-engravers, literati and poets of his time. At his court at Florence, Michel Angelo essayed the first strokes of his chisel, and many artists, amongst them, Brunelleschi and Donatello, owed their prosperity to the protection of this enlightened Prince. "Laurent", says Müntz (Histoire de l'Art, vol. I, p. 5...
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LORIEUX, JULIEN
LORIEUX, JULIEN (French). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born in Paris; pupil of Alphée Dubois and Georges Lemaire. He has been very successful, and his exhibits at the Salons since 1899 have met with approval from the best critics. His medallic productions are not numerous. I have only noticed : Vierge (14 mill.); — Premi?re Communion (Plaquette without R.); — St. Sebastian (illustrated). — The Villager and the Serpent (the last two executed in commission for the firm of Arthus Bertrand e...
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LORIEUX, JULIEN (French). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born in Paris; pupil of Alphée Dubois and Georges Lemaire. He has been very successful, and his exhibits at the Salons since 1899 have met with approval from the best critics. His medallic productions are not numerous. I have only noticed : Vierge (14 mill.); — Premi?re Communion (Plaquette without R.); — St. Sebastian (illustrated). — The Villager and the Serpent (the last two executed in commission for the firm of Arthus Bertrand e...
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