MOULIN, STEPHEN (French). Contemporary Sculptor, born at Clermont (Oise). I have come across his signature on a Portraitmedallion in bronze of Augustin Ledercq.
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
MODERNO
MODERNO (ltal.). Sculptor and Medallist of the end of the fifteenth century and first half of the sixteenth. Eug. Müntz has suggested his identification with GIOVANNI GUERINO, Mint-engraver at Rome, 1548-1549 (Vide Vol. II, p. 336), but Molinier seems nearer the truth in naming CAMELIO (Vittore Gambello), a Venetian artist, 1460-1539, with whose works Moderno's productions bear great analogy. It is quite clear that MODERNO is only a cognomen, as L'ANTICO which designated the Medallist Pier Giaco...
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MODERNO (ltal.). Sculptor and Medallist of the end of the fifteenth century and first half of the sixteenth. Eug. Müntz has suggested his identification with GIOVANNI GUERINO, Mint-engraver at Rome, 1548-1549 (Vide Vol. II, p. 336), but Molinier seems nearer the truth in naming CAMELIO (Vittore Gambello), a Venetian artist, 1460-1539, with whose works Moderno's productions bear great analogy. It is quite clear that MODERNO is only a cognomen, as L'ANTICO which designated the Medallist Pier Giaco...
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MOELINGEN, GYSBERT VAN
MOELINGEN, GYSBERT VAN (Dutch). Medallist and Line-engraver of the second half of the eighteenth century. He filled the post of Mint-engraver for Guelders, at Utrecht, in which capacity he is mentioned in a document of 15. August 1760. By him are the following medals, which are all reproduced in Van Loon, Suppl., VI, VII : — Visit of Princess Anne with her children to Princess Maria Louisa at Oranjewoud in Friesland, 1754 ; — Jubilee of the Reformed Orphanage at Amsterdam, 1757; — Medal of the...
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MOELINGEN, GYSBERT VAN (Dutch). Medallist and Line-engraver of the second half of the eighteenth century. He filled the post of Mint-engraver for Guelders, at Utrecht, in which capacity he is mentioned in a document of 15. August 1760. By him are the following medals, which are all reproduced in Van Loon, Suppl., VI, VII : — Visit of Princess Anne with her children to Princess Maria Louisa at Oranjewoud in Friesland, 1754 ; — Jubilee of the Reformed Orphanage at Amsterdam, 1757; — Medal of the...
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MOERIKOFER, JOHANN KASPAR
MOERIKOFER, JOHANN KASPAR (Swiss). Medallist and Coinengraver, born at Frauenfeld, 7. November 1738, died at Berne, circa 1800. He was a nephew of Johann Melchior Mörikofer, with whom he was first apprenticed. Later he visited Paris and for some years practised gem-engraving and die-sinking there, until he was called back to Berne, on the death of his uncle, Easter 1761, to fill the vacant post of Engraver of the coins of the Republic (1761-1790). By this clever artist were probably cut the foll...
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MOERIKOFER, JOHANN KASPAR (Swiss). Medallist and Coinengraver, born at Frauenfeld, 7. November 1738, died at Berne, circa 1800. He was a nephew of Johann Melchior Mörikofer, with whom he was first apprenticed. Later he visited Paris and for some years practised gem-engraving and die-sinking there, until he was called back to Berne, on the death of his uncle, Easter 1761, to fill the vacant post of Engraver of the coins of the Republic (1761-1790). By this clever artist were probably cut the foll...
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MOERIKOFER, JOHANN MELCHIOR
MOERIKOFER, JOHANN MELCHIOR (Swiss). Medallist and Coinengraver, born at Frauenfeld, 17 November 1706, died at Berne, 7. April 1761. His father was in the medical profession. He learned die-sinking with his step-brother J. H. Koch of Thun, and first copied models from works of his predecessors, principally Hedlinger. From 1755 until his death he was Mint-engraver at Berne. Mörikofer engraved seals and also some medals, which are of fine execution : Prize Medal of the Royal Society of Sciences of...
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MOERIKOFER, JOHANN MELCHIOR (Swiss). Medallist and Coinengraver, born at Frauenfeld, 17 November 1706, died at Berne, 7. April 1761. His father was in the medical profession. He learned die-sinking with his step-brother J. H. Koch of Thun, and first copied models from works of his predecessors, principally Hedlinger. From 1755 until his death he was Mint-engraver at Berne. Mörikofer engraved seals and also some medals, which are of fine execution : Prize Medal of the Royal Society of Sciences of...
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