NYS, CAREL ANDREAS (Belg.). Painter and Sculptor, born at Antwerp, 29. September 1858. Pupil of the Royal Academy of Antwerp, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris. He has participated in various Exhibitions. I have noticed his signature : C. NYS on a medal commemorating the Carnival at Breda, 1880, and he has engraved various Prize Medals, &c.
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
NELL, HANS
NELL, HANS (Germ.). Line-engraver, and Medallist of the second quarter of the sixteenth century, at Augsburg, mentioned by Bolzenthal, after Stetten, as the author of a Portrait-medallion of Charles V., circ. 1540. Stetten has omitted to describe this medal, and it is therefore impossible to recognize it among the great number dedicated to the fame of this monarch. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Stetten, Kunst-, Gewerb- und Handwerks- Geschichte der Reichstadt Augsburg, 1779. — Nagler, o...
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NELL, HANS (Germ.). Line-engraver, and Medallist of the second quarter of the sixteenth century, at Augsburg, mentioned by Bolzenthal, after Stetten, as the author of a Portrait-medallion of Charles V., circ. 1540. Stetten has omitted to describe this medal, and it is therefore impossible to recognize it among the great number dedicated to the fame of this monarch. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Stetten, Kunst-, Gewerb- und Handwerks- Geschichte der Reichstadt Augsburg, 1779. — Nagler, o...
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NESTI, VITTORIO
NESTI, VITTORIO (Ital.). Sculptor, and Medallist at Florence, during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He has executed Portrait-medals, mostly bearing inscriptions on the reverses. His best known medallic productions are: Antonio Allegri, 1825 ; — Bernardo Luino; — Ferdinand, Count of Bubna-Lititz, Commander-general of Lombardy (on his death, 1825); — Diodara Saluzzo, poetess, 1842 ; — Juditha Pasta ; — Gioacchino Rossini ; — Maria Felicit? Malibran, 1834 ; — Antonietta de Montenegr...
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NESTI, VITTORIO (Ital.). Sculptor, and Medallist at Florence, during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He has executed Portrait-medals, mostly bearing inscriptions on the reverses. His best known medallic productions are: Antonio Allegri, 1825 ; — Bernardo Luino; — Ferdinand, Count of Bubna-Lititz, Commander-general of Lombardy (on his death, 1825); — Diodara Saluzzo, poetess, 1842 ; — Juditha Pasta ; — Gioacchino Rossini ; — Maria Felicit? Malibran, 1834 ; — Antonietta de Montenegr...
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NETZER, HEINRICH
NETZER, HEINRICH (Germ.). Sculptor and Medallist, born in 1865 at Isny in Wurtemberg; a pupil of the Academy of Munich. His Marriage-medal of Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, 1900, is reproduced in Die Moderne Medaille, 1900, p. 69, and presents on obv. a figure of Hymen, accompanied by the legend : YMENAIO?. It is of powerful design and originality. This artist's works of sculpture are better known, as the Triton in the Herzog Wilhelmsstrasse at Munich, the colossal group of Prometheus in the new...
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NETZER, HEINRICH (Germ.). Sculptor and Medallist, born in 1865 at Isny in Wurtemberg; a pupil of the Academy of Munich. His Marriage-medal of Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, 1900, is reproduced in Die Moderne Medaille, 1900, p. 69, and presents on obv. a figure of Hymen, accompanied by the legend : YMENAIO?. It is of powerful design and originality. This artist's works of sculpture are better known, as the Triton in the Herzog Wilhelmsstrasse at Munich, the colossal group of Prometheus in the new...
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NEUANTOS
NEUANTOS (Greek). Coin-engraver at the Mint of Cydonia in Crete, circ. 350-308 B.C. The inscription NEYANTO? E?OEl which occurs on a Tetradrachm of Cydonia is known since the eighteenth century, and was published for the first time by the Jesuit father, Froehlich, of Vienna. There can be no doubt as to the signification of this signature which is followed by the word E?OEI. The British Museum possesses a Didrachm of Cydonia, reproduced in Brit. Mus. Cat., Crete, PI. VII, n° 1, and presenting on...
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NEUANTOS (Greek). Coin-engraver at the Mint of Cydonia in Crete, circ. 350-308 B.C. The inscription NEYANTO? E?OEl which occurs on a Tetradrachm of Cydonia is known since the eighteenth century, and was published for the first time by the Jesuit father, Froehlich, of Vienna. There can be no doubt as to the signification of this signature which is followed by the word E?OEI. The British Museum possesses a Didrachm of Cydonia, reproduced in Brit. Mus. Cat., Crete, PI. VII, n° 1, and presenting on...
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