METELLES, GOTTFRIED WILHELM (Germ.). Mint-engraver and Medallist, at Minden, circ. 1690-1711; then at Koenigsberg (Prussia), 1711-1724. His coins are usually signed : M; — G. M. ; or G. W. M. The Berlin Mint-engraver Friedrich Marl also signed M. By him are: Minden Gulden of Frederick I., 1705-6; Half Gulden, 1705; 1/12 Thalers, 1705-1706; — Koenigsberg Coronation Ducats, 1701 ; Ducats of Frederick William I, 1713-1722 (every year), &c. The artist's initials G. M. occur on a Half Batzen of Frederick I. for Neuchâtel, dated 1712. Bibliography. — Von Schrötter, Das Preussische Münzwessen , Berlin, 1902. — Die Münzprägung in Neuenburg in den Jahren 1713, 14 und 15, Berlin, 1900.
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
MAUGER, JEAN
MAUGER, JEAN (French). Medallist of the second half of the seventeenth century and first quarter of the eighteenth ; probably born at Dieppe about 1648, where he is said to have had his first training as a carver in ivory, which trade was then a flourishing one in that town ; died at Paris on the 9th of September 1722 at the age of seventy-four. Nothing is known of the circumstances which led the artist to settle in Paris, circ. 1677, and later to enter the King's service as an Engraver. B...
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MAUGER, JEAN (French). Medallist of the second half of the seventeenth century and first quarter of the eighteenth ; probably born at Dieppe about 1648, where he is said to have had his first training as a carver in ivory, which trade was then a flourishing one in that town ; died at Paris on the 9th of September 1722 at the age of seventy-four. Nothing is known of the circumstances which led the artist to settle in Paris, circ. 1677, and later to enter the King's service as an Engraver. B...
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MAURA Y MONTANER, BARTOLOMÉ
MAURA Y MONTANER, BARTOLOMÉ (Span.). Contemporary Medallist and Line-engraver, born at Palma de Mallorca, circ. 1850. He went to Madrid in 1858 in order to continue his studies, and there became a pupil of D. Frederico de Madrazo at the Escuela Especial de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado. For five consecutive years he was engaged at the Prado Museum reproducing in copper-plate the most famous works of Spanish Masters, direct from the originals. Since 1869, he has executed a large number of en...
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MAURA Y MONTANER, BARTOLOMÉ (Span.). Contemporary Medallist and Line-engraver, born at Palma de Mallorca, circ. 1850. He went to Madrid in 1858 in order to continue his studies, and there became a pupil of D. Frederico de Madrazo at the Escuela Especial de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado. For five consecutive years he was engaged at the Prado Museum reproducing in copper-plate the most famous works of Spanish Masters, direct from the originals. Since 1869, he has executed a large number of en...
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MAURER
MAURER (Germ.). Die-sinker and Engraver, born at Dresden, and nephew of John Croker, Chief-engraver at the London Mint, 1705-1741. At the call of Croker, Maurer came to London towards 1740, to assist his uncle in his work at the mint, but nothing further is known of him, nor can it be ascertained how long he stayed in England. It is surmised that as Croker died without male issue Maurer had been appointed his heir. Bibliography. — Ammon, op. cit. — Lochner, Medaillen Sammlung, p. VIII, pr...
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MAURER (Germ.). Die-sinker and Engraver, born at Dresden, and nephew of John Croker, Chief-engraver at the London Mint, 1705-1741. At the call of Croker, Maurer came to London towards 1740, to assist his uncle in his work at the mint, but nothing further is known of him, nor can it be ascertained how long he stayed in England. It is surmised that as Croker died without male issue Maurer had been appointed his heir. Bibliography. — Ammon, op. cit. — Lochner, Medaillen Sammlung, p. VIII, pr...
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MAURICE (2.)
MAURICE (French). Two Gem-engravers of that name, father and son, flourished under Louis XIII., during the first half of the seventeenth century. The father, who was a native of the Netherlands, first settled at Rouen, then at Paris; the son practised the art of gem-engraving at Rouen, but died at The Hague in 1732, at the age of eighty. As none of the works of these artists are signed, it is impossible to ascertain which of the gems of that period, some of which are of undoubted merit, may be...
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MAURICE (French). Two Gem-engravers of that name, father and son, flourished under Louis XIII., during the first half of the seventeenth century. The father, who was a native of the Netherlands, first settled at Rouen, then at Paris; the son practised the art of gem-engraving at Rouen, but died at The Hague in 1732, at the age of eighty. As none of the works of these artists are signed, it is impossible to ascertain which of the gems of that period, some of which are of undoubted merit, may be...
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