NAZAUAL or NAZAVAL (Chil.). Sculptor and Medallist of Santiago de Chili, end of the eighteenth century. A Proclamation medal struck by that city in honour of the accession of Charles IV. of Spain, 1789, is signed on truncation of king's bust: NAZAUAL F. and in exergue of reverse : NAZAUAL INCIDIT.
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
MOSER, GEORG MICHAEL
MOSER, GEORG MICHAEL (Swiss). 1706-1783. Goldsmith, Chaser, and Enameller, Gem -engraver, and Medallist, born at Schaffhausen on 17. January, 1706. His father, Michael M., was a Coppersmith of some note. With him, young Moser learned drawing and chasing. At the age of 18 he went to Geneva and applied himself there to the goldsmith's art. After a year and a half he left for Paris and London, practically without means. In England, he was first employed by a cabinet-maker, named Trotter, as a chase...
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MOSER, GEORG MICHAEL (Swiss). 1706-1783. Goldsmith, Chaser, and Enameller, Gem -engraver, and Medallist, born at Schaffhausen on 17. January, 1706. His father, Michael M., was a Coppersmith of some note. With him, young Moser learned drawing and chasing. At the age of 18 he went to Geneva and applied himself there to the goldsmith's art. After a year and a half he left for Paris and London, practically without means. In England, he was first employed by a cabinet-maker, named Trotter, as a chase...
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MOSSOP, WILLIAM
MOSSOP, WILLIAM (Brit.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century, born at Dublin in 1751, died there either in 1804 or 1806. The following particulars are borrowed from Frazer's work On the Medallists of Ireland and their Work. “ The name of Mossop's father was Browne, and when he died, his widow married W. Mossop, a relation of the popular actor and stage-manager, Henry Mossop. The father of her child having been a Roman catholic, she changed his name, to obtain admission for him...
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MOSSOP, WILLIAM (Brit.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century, born at Dublin in 1751, died there either in 1804 or 1806. The following particulars are borrowed from Frazer's work On the Medallists of Ireland and their Work. “ The name of Mossop's father was Browne, and when he died, his widow married W. Mossop, a relation of the popular actor and stage-manager, Henry Mossop. The father of her child having been a Roman catholic, she changed his name, to obtain admission for him...
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MOSSOP, WILLIAM STEPHEN
MOSSOP, WILLIAM STEPHEN (Brit.). Son of the last, and also a Medallist, born at Dublin in 1788, and educated at the Academy of Samuel White. " He was ", says Frazer, " in 1802, placed in the Art Schools of the Royal Dublin Society, under Francis West, the master of the Figure School, and became afterwards his private pupil until the unexpected death of his father obliged him, at the age of sixteen years, to commence practising his future profession for a livelihood. His first work was a medal fo...
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MOSSOP, WILLIAM STEPHEN (Brit.). Son of the last, and also a Medallist, born at Dublin in 1788, and educated at the Academy of Samuel White. " He was ", says Frazer, " in 1802, placed in the Art Schools of the Royal Dublin Society, under Francis West, the master of the Figure School, and became afterwards his private pupil until the unexpected death of his father obliged him, at the age of sixteen years, to commence practising his future profession for a livelihood. His first work was a medal fo...
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MOTTA, CHARLES
MOTTA, CHARLES (Smss). Die-sinker of the second half of the eighteenth century. According to Schlickeysen, he was residing at Geneva, circ. 1770. In 1788 we find him at Motiers-Travers (canton Neuchâtel), in which year he submitted Pattern pieces for 4, 2 and 1/2 Creutzers for the Neuchâtel coinage of Frederick William II., 1788. These were not adopted. Motta's signature occurs on Prize-medals of Geneva. Bibliography. — W. Wavre, La "grande lacune " dans It monnayage de Neuchâtel de 1614 ? 1789,...
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MOTTA, CHARLES (Smss). Die-sinker of the second half of the eighteenth century. According to Schlickeysen, he was residing at Geneva, circ. 1770. In 1788 we find him at Motiers-Travers (canton Neuchâtel), in which year he submitted Pattern pieces for 4, 2 and 1/2 Creutzers for the Neuchâtel coinage of Frederick William II., 1788. These were not adopted. Motta's signature occurs on Prize-medals of Geneva. Bibliography. — W. Wavre, La "grande lacune " dans It monnayage de Neuchâtel de 1614 ? 1789,...
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