Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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obv. we find Don Blass kneeling, handing his sword to Admiral
Vernon; ex.: BRADBURY. i3L. Harbour and shipping; WHO TOOK
PORTO BELLO WITH SIX SHIPS ONLY; ex.: NOV. 22. I739.
BRADDOCK, LIEUT. J. (Brit.). Mint-master at Madras, in charge
from April I836 to July I837.
BRAECKE, PIERRE R. (Belg.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, by whom I have seen:- Portrait-plaquette of Baron Ad. de
Cuvelier, secretary of the Independent State of the Congo, I885 -I908.
BRAEMT, JOSEPH PIERRE (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 260). Additional medals: 858. Medal of the Royal Society of Fine Arts
and Literature of Ghent, AE (46 mill.).
BRAGG (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 262). This Gem-engraver's
signature occurs on the following intaglios: Herakles strangling
lion, carnelian; - Urania; - Head of Omphale, white carnelian;
- Euclid Canini, carnelian (reproduced in Raspe, Tassie's gems,
P1. LXXXX, I556o).
BRAKE, JEAN (Flem.). Mint-master at Brussels, I437.
BRAKENHAUSEN, FERDINAND (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 262).
By him is a fine Portrait-medal of Empress Victoria Augusta, 1894
(V. BRAKENHAUSEN 94).
BRANCHE, JEAN NICOLAS (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 262).
Medallist and Seal-engraver, "graveur ordinaire de Monsieur frere
du Roi ", born in Paris on 29. June 1734, died there on 3. November 1786. By him are a large Seal with the arms of the Duc de
Berry, and a jeton of the Paris Comptoir d'Escompte.
His nephew(?) LOUIS FRANCOIS BRANCHE, also a Medallist and
Seal-engraver, is the engraver of the medal mentioned previously.
Cf. Ct. Babut, Les graw. Branche, Rev. num., I908, p. 538.
BRAND, ANDREAS JOACHIM (Germ.). Mint-master at Rostock,
I805-I825. He signed: A.I.B.
BRANDT, FRANZ HEINRICH (Germ.). Mint-master at Rostock,
I782-I800. In 1783 he issued Ducats, Sechslinge, Schillings and
Groschen.
BRANDT, HENRI FRANCOIS (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 263).
Additional works: Portrait-medals, Johann Koepke; - Fritz, Mintengraver at Berlin; - Alexandre Vattemare, 1833;- Isidore Magues,
I832; - Medal of Ferdinand I. King of the Two-Sicilies, on the
completion of the Theatre of San Carlo; - Undated Medal of