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 ...

- 426 HAYNL, WENZL (iAustr.). Mint-engraver at Vienna, circ. I767 -I777; died on 6. January I779. HAZEN, JEAN (Fleri.). Mint-engraver at Maestricht, appointed on 1. February 1524, on the decease of Ulrich Peeters, and in office until 1558. H - B (B.D.M., Vol. II, pp. 356, 443). By this artist is a Portrait-medal of Siegmund von Nanckenreut, I 55 I, in the British Museum Collection (Ni11m. Chron., I904, P1. VII, 3). H. C. (Brit.). The copper farthings struck for circulation in Antigua and dated I836 bear these letters on the obverse. They are the initials of Hannay and Coltart, merchants, who issued them. H. C. BR. (Germ.). These initials occur on a medal of the Reichstag at Ratisbon, 164r, with bust of Ferdinand III. HEATON, RALPH (THE MINT BIRMINGHAM LIMD) (B. D.M., Vol. II, p. 446). This firm produced also: South African and International Exhibition at Kimberley, I892;- New Bronze Coinage of George V. 1912 (part of the issue was struck at Birmingham, and bears the distinctive mark H in exergue). HEBENSTREIT, STEFAN ANTON (B.D.M., Vol. II, p. 446). Born at Kremnitz; Mint-engraver at Nagybanya, died in I773. HEBERT, LOUIS PHILIPPE (Canad.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist; son of Theophile Hebert, and Julia Bourgeois, born at Ste.Sophie d'Halifax, Megantic County, Que., in I85o. He studied modelling with Napoleon Bourassa of Montreal, and also in Paris. In I883 he was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, having designed and executed the Maisonneuve Monument, besides others in Montreal and throughout the Province. His first attempt in the medal line was that struck in 900o for J. Israel Tarte, which while somewhat crude, especially in the design of the reverse, shows flashes of the art by which he produced the masterpiece described below, the Lieutenant Governor Leblanc Medal, 1915 Obv. P E LEBLANC LIEUTENANT GOUVERNEUR DU QUEBEC. Bust of the Lieutenant Governor to the right; behind the bust, I915. On the truncation, P. HEBERT. P1L. A wreath of maple leaves to the right and laurel to the left. Size 5o mill. "Hebert's second effort was the medal of Dr. W. Aeland Oronhvatekha, Chief Ranger of theIndependent Order of Foresters (signed: P. HUBERT 1900). Hebert having made the delineation of the physical types of the aboriginal races of Canada his chief study,

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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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