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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Jubilee of the French Community in Berlin (1772, after Chodowiecki's design); - Sigmund v. d. Heyde, as defender of Kolberg,
1760; - Portrait-cameo in onyx of Empress Maria Theresia;
Golden Wedding of Count Christian Ernest of Stolberg and consort
Sophie Charlotte, 1762; - Admiral Rodney; PIL. ACTIVE-BRAVEVICTORIOUS. I780, etc.
ABRAHAM, SALOMON P. (Gerni.). Gem-engraver of the end of the
eighteenth century; possibly a son of Jakob Abraham. In the Imp.
Mus., Vienna, is a Portrait-cameo in chalcedony of Emperor
Leopold II., signed: SALOMON P. ABRAHAM. Cf. Thieme, op. cit.
ABRAM, CHARLES AUGUSTE (French). Contemporary Sculptor,
born at Besancon (Doubs); pupil of Roty, and Roine. At the Salon
of 1905 he exhibited four Medals; - 1906. Plaquette in bronze;Medals and two Plaquettes in ivory; - I907. Portrait-plaquette;
-Medal, with head of the French Republic.
ABRAMSON, ABRAHAM (B. D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 17). Further
medals by this Engraver are: Moses Mendelssohn; IPL. PHAEDON.
Butterfly perched on skull; ex.: NATUS MDCCXXIX., and those of Kant,
Lessing, Wieland, Ramler, Sulzer, Euler, Spalding, D. Bernouilli,
Overbeck, Roloff, Marggraff, Formey, Martini, Gall, Burg,
Gebhardi, Weisse, Spiegel, Theden, etc.; - Commemorative medals
of the Arming of Prussian Troops, I778; - Peace of Teschen,
I779; - Death by drowning in the Oder of Duke Leopold ot
Brunswick; - Peace with Russia, I762; - Conquest of the
Netze District, 1772; 7Ist Birthday of the King of Prussia, I782;
- Introduction of the Silk Industry, 1783; - Meeting of
Monarchs at Tilsit, 1807; - Return of the Royal pair, 8o8; -
Death of Queen Louise, I 8o; -- Franchise granted to the Jews
in the Kingdom of Westphalia; - Freedom granted to the Jews in
Russia under Alexander I.; - Medal on the death of Queen Marie
Antoinette (belonging to D. F. Loos's series " Les six victimes");
- Portrait-medallion of Frederick the Great, FRIDERICUS LEGISLATOR 1785; - Leonhard Euler (Ewig 697); - Peace of Basle
between France and Prussia (E. 773). The last two signed:
ABRAMSON.
ABREU, JOAQUIM VALERIO DE (Portug.). Mint-engraver in Lisbon,
where he worked only as an assistant to Bernardo Jorge, to whom
he had been apprenticed, I739-I747.'
ACCIOPACCIA, GIOVANNI (B. D. M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 21). Engraver
at Naples, early part of the sixteenth century, to whom is ascribed
amongst others the Carlino of Louis XII, for Naples.
ACHESOUN, JOHN (B. D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 20). Interesting par