MORRIS, WILLIAM (Brit.). Poet and artistic Decorator, born near London in 1834, died, 3. October 1896. He was educated at Marlborough College and Oxford, where he became intimately acquainted with Burne-Jones. In 1863 he established the business in stained glass and decorations which bears his name. Morris has been the great English exponent of the revival of artistic taste throughout Europe within the last twenty-five years, and as such his name cannot be omitted here. " He it was", says one of his biographers, " who snatched from the hand of Ruskin the torch which Pugin earlier in the century had kindled, and fired the love of beauty in us... He stamped the mark of his personality upon the design of his generation... Morris was an absolutely healthy idealist... He has exercised considerable influence upon manufacture, but only indirectly, his methods being professedly those of art. The greatest pleasure in life he said, was the pleasure of creating beautiful things " (Vide art. W. Morris by Lewis F. Day, in Easter Art Annual, 1899). Indirectly this great artist has influenced medallic art in this country and inspired new ideas in the earlier accepted theories.
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
MISSERONI, GIROLAMO
MISSERONI, GIROLAMO (or HIERONYMO) (Ital.). Milanese Gemengraver, who also distinguished himself in the cutting of vases in crystal, agate, and lapis-lazuli. Several of his fine works, and of those of his brother Girolamo, are preserved at the Florence Museum and in various collections at Vienna and Prague. Towards the end of the sixteenth century he settled in the Bohemian capital, and worked for the emperor Rudolph II. In the Vienna “ Kunstkammer " is preserved a Beaker, four feet high, in r...
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MISSERONI, GIROLAMO (or HIERONYMO) (Ital.). Milanese Gemengraver, who also distinguished himself in the cutting of vases in crystal, agate, and lapis-lazuli. Several of his fine works, and of those of his brother Girolamo, are preserved at the Florence Museum and in various collections at Vienna and Prague. Towards the end of the sixteenth century he settled in the Bohemian capital, and worked for the emperor Rudolph II. In the Vienna “ Kunstkammer " is preserved a Beaker, four feet high, in r...
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MISSERONI
MISSERONI. A family of Gem-engravers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Girolamo and Gasparo Misseroni were contemporaries of Jacopo da Trezzo, and were called from Milan to Prague in the service of the emperor Rudolph II. Their descendants Ambrogio, Alessandro, Ottavio, Dionis, and Giulio all worked for the Imperial court, and, according to Nagler, produced very fine work. The family was originary of Milan. The name occurs in various forms : MISERON ; — MISSERONI ; MISURONNI, &c. Bibl...
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MISSERONI. A family of Gem-engravers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Girolamo and Gasparo Misseroni were contemporaries of Jacopo da Trezzo, and were called from Milan to Prague in the service of the emperor Rudolph II. Their descendants Ambrogio, Alessandro, Ottavio, Dionis, and Giulio all worked for the Imperial court, and, according to Nagler, produced very fine work. The family was originary of Milan. The name occurs in various forms : MISERON ; — MISSERONI ; MISURONNI, &c. Bibl...
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MITCHELL, F. N.
MITCHELL, F. N. (Amer.). Sculptor, and Medallist, of the middle years of the nineteenth century; worked at Boston. By him are the following medals : General Dr Joseph Warren, of Boston (4 var.) ; — United States Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va (or Portsmouth Yellow Fever medal); — Medal of the United States Agricultural Society, 1852; — Medal of the Maine Agricultural Society ;— Medal of the Sandwich Islands Agricultural Society ; — Medal of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association; — ...
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MITCHELL, F. N. (Amer.). Sculptor, and Medallist, of the middle years of the nineteenth century; worked at Boston. By him are the following medals : General Dr Joseph Warren, of Boston (4 var.) ; — United States Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va (or Portsmouth Yellow Fever medal); — Medal of the United States Agricultural Society, 1852; — Medal of the Maine Agricultural Society ;— Medal of the Sandwich Islands Agricultural Society ; — Medal of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association; — ...
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MITTERMAYER, MATTHIAS VON WAFFENBERG
MITTERMAYER, MATTHIAS VON WAFFENBERG (Austr.). Mintmaster at Vienna, circ. 1679-1705 (?); died. 22. December 1708. His initials occur on the coins issued by him, which were all engraved by the Mint-engraver, Johann Michael Hoffmann. Among these are the two commemorative Thalers of the Siege of Vienna, 1683, Double Ducat of 1682, Ducats of 1683-84, Quarter Ducat, 1694, Thalers and Sechsers, &c. A Thaler of Prince Ferdinand Wilhelm Euseb of Schwarzenberg, and consort Maria Anna, 1696, of which se...
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MITTERMAYER, MATTHIAS VON WAFFENBERG (Austr.). Mintmaster at Vienna, circ. 1679-1705 (?); died. 22. December 1708. His initials occur on the coins issued by him, which were all engraved by the Mint-engraver, Johann Michael Hoffmann. Among these are the two commemorative Thalers of the Siege of Vienna, 1683, Double Ducat of 1682, Ducats of 1683-84, Quarter Ducat, 1694, Thalers and Sechsers, &c. A Thaler of Prince Ferdinand Wilhelm Euseb of Schwarzenberg, and consort Maria Anna, 1696, of which se...
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