ORTH, FRIEDRICH (Austr.). Successor of ANT. PITTNER'S NACHF. (q. v.). Die-sinker, and Manufacturer of medals, residing at Vienna, Magdalenenstrasse 32, VI, I. The firm still makes a speciality of striking medals for artists. I have seen, amongst this establishment's productions : Kaiser Francis Joseph Jubilee, 1898 (various types, by — Radnitzki and other artists); Vienna Musical Friends' Society ; — Chopin, by Maria Gherson ; — Andreas Hofer; — New year's Medals and Plaquettes ; — Anton Scharff, 1893; — Sigmund Golian, 1885 ; — Sarolta von Rettich-Pirk ; — L. U. Kossuth ; — Eduard B. Foest ; — Carl Andorfer; — Albrecht Dürer; — Mathias Corvinus ;— Schiller, Centenary Celebration, 1905 ; — Vienna Military Club ; — Edmund Sas. Litynskiemu, 1904; — Prize Medals for Exhibitions, Shows, etc. ; — Marien-Münzen ; — Devotional and Religious medals ; — Masonic Medals ; — St. George Medals ; — Christening Medals and Jetons; — Marriage Medals and Plaquettes; — School Medals, and all kinds of works in the die-sinking branch.
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
NIKANDROS
NIKANDROS (Greek). Gem-engraver of the hellenistic period, third century B.C. His signature : NIKAN?POC ?MO?l occurs on an amethyst of the old Marlborough collection, representing a female bust, the style of which and arrangement of hair permit us to assign it to the Ptolemaic period. King describes it as a head of Julia Titi. “ Greatly abused ", says King " by Köhler : The portrait without resemblance, executed utterly without taste, and legend and all of modern origin, &c. Dr B., though far ...
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NIKANDROS (Greek). Gem-engraver of the hellenistic period, third century B.C. His signature : NIKAN?POC ?MO?l occurs on an amethyst of the old Marlborough collection, representing a female bust, the style of which and arrangement of hair permit us to assign it to the Ptolemaic period. King describes it as a head of Julia Titi. “ Greatly abused ", says King " by Köhler : The portrait without resemblance, executed utterly without taste, and legend and all of modern origin, &c. Dr B., though far ...
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NILIS, JACQUES
NILIS, JACQUES (French). Medallist of the last quarter of the seventeenth century, about whom little is known, beyond that he engraved several medals of the series of Louis XIV., some of which are signed. His name occurs in documents of the Paris Mint archives, from 1688 to 1693. As Guiffrey suggests, it is possible that Nilis was a relative, and perhaps a brother-in-law of Joseph Roettier, whose first wife's name was Elizabeth Nilis. This artist's usual signature was N, but it also occurs in ot...
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NILIS, JACQUES (French). Medallist of the last quarter of the seventeenth century, about whom little is known, beyond that he engraved several medals of the series of Louis XIV., some of which are signed. His name occurs in documents of the Paris Mint archives, from 1688 to 1693. As Guiffrey suggests, it is possible that Nilis was a relative, and perhaps a brother-in-law of Joseph Roettier, whose first wife's name was Elizabeth Nilis. This artist's usual signature was N, but it also occurs in ot...
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NILLSON, SVANTE EDWIN
NILLSON, SVANTE EDWIN (Swed.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born at Stockholm ; pupil of Adolph Lindberg, the Academy of Fine Arts of Stockholm ; also of the Paris sculptors, F. Lasserre, and Henri Dubois. At the salon of 1898, he exhibited a Portrait-plaquette ; at the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1900, several Medals and Plaquettes ; 1901. M. et Mme B***; — President Kruger; — 1902, and 1903. Various Portrait-medallions and Plaquettes. The works of this young artist are in very good t...
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NILLSON, SVANTE EDWIN (Swed.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born at Stockholm ; pupil of Adolph Lindberg, the Academy of Fine Arts of Stockholm ; also of the Paris sculptors, F. Lasserre, and Henri Dubois. At the salon of 1898, he exhibited a Portrait-plaquette ; at the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1900, several Medals and Plaquettes ; 1901. M. et Mme B***; — President Kruger; — 1902, and 1903. Various Portrait-medallions and Plaquettes. The works of this young artist are in very good t...
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NINI, JEAN-BAPTISTE
NINI, JEAN-BAPTISTE (Ital.). Modeller, and Engraver of Portraitmedallions, in terra-cotta, was born at Urbino (Papal States) in 1717, and died at Chaumont, near Blois, in France, in 1786. Thither he had been called in 1772 by Le Ray, grand master of the rivers and forest, and the proprietor of the castle of Chaumont since 1750, to manage some glass and pottery works which had been established in the dependencies of the manor house. There is no trace left of the finely worked glasses of Nini, b...
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NINI, JEAN-BAPTISTE (Ital.). Modeller, and Engraver of Portraitmedallions, in terra-cotta, was born at Urbino (Papal States) in 1717, and died at Chaumont, near Blois, in France, in 1786. Thither he had been called in 1772 by Le Ray, grand master of the rivers and forest, and the proprietor of the castle of Chaumont since 1750, to manage some glass and pottery works which had been established in the dependencies of the manor house. There is no trace left of the finely worked glasses of Nini, b...
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