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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Besides the medals I have mentioned before Thieme's Allgenm.
Kiinsterlex., IX, 448 gives the following: Prince Bishop Franz von
Gurk 1784; -The Sonnenfels Orphanage 1797, etc.
DONNER, MATTHAEUS (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 607). Sculptor
and Medallist, born at Esslingen (Lower Austria) on 29. August
I704, died in Vienna on 26. August I756. Son of Peter D. and
younger brother of Raphael D., under whom he was first apprenticed. In 1726 he entered the Vienna Academy and became a
pupil of Benedikt Richter, the Swedish Mint-engraver, I729-I73 I.
In I745 he was appointed Director of the 'Graveurakademie', and
1749, Chief-engraver at the Mint. He married in 1734 Anne Maria
Wirth, daughter of the Viennese goldsmith Friedr. Wirth, and after
her death in I752, Maria Franziska Weilhamerin, I753, who
survived him, and afterwards married one of his pupils, Anton
Moll.
For further information and bibliographical sources, consult U.
Thieme, Allgem. Kiinstlerlex., IX, 448.
DONNER, SEBASTIAN ANTON (Austr.). Mint-engraver at Hall and
Kremnitz (I751), b. at Esslingen 19. January I707; died Oct.
I763. Son of Peter D. and youngest brother of Raplhal and
Matthaus D.
DONZELLI (/al.). Contemporary Die-sinker of Milan, who engraved in I890 a Portrait-medal of Garibaldi, commemorating the
Inauguration of his Monument at Vercelli, I890. It was edited by
Cav. Giulio Sambon.
DOPPET, BENOIT (French). Mint-master at Gex, I568.
DORNSTRAUCH, RUDOLF (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 6ro). Mintmaster at Celle, I673-16, 68, 685-686; mint-mark: R. D.
DORRWALDT, HANS GEORG (Germ.). Mint-master at Ortenberg,
1622-23.
DORSCH (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 6rI). A Nuremberg iamily
of Gem- and Seal-engravers and Medallists, of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. The foremost member was CHRISTOPH D.,
born io. July 1676, died 17. October I732; son of the armorialengraver ERHARD D. After having followed various trades, he took
to gem-engraving in which art he became very proficient. He cut a
large series of intaglios with portraits of the Popes (according to
Keyssler 238, in cornelian), Roman Emperors, Kings of France,
Spain and Portugal, Doges of Venice and other celebrities, representations of classical subjects, gods, hieroglyphics, etc. He engraved