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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BANMOS, ULRICH VON (Swiss). Mint-master at Wangen-on-Aar;
coined for the Counts of Kyburg. Cf. H. Tutrler, in Schw. Kstl.
Lex., Suppl., 20.
BAMBARARA, ZUAN BATTISTA (Ial.). Mint-engraver at Venice
from about I 579, and later in conjunction with Zuan Battista Mazza,
1587 to I603 or a little later.
BAND (Brit.). Gem-engraver of the end of the eighteenth century,
by whom is a cameo representing the Dioscuri on horseback, and
signed: BAND INV.
BANDEL, C. J. (Germ.). Master of the Mint, Cassel, 1744-1765.
BANDEL, JOSEPH ERNEST VON (Germ.). An eminent German
Sculptor (1800-I876), and author of the famous monument of
Arminius at Detmold. Dr F. P. Weber owned a Portrait-medallion by
him of an unknown Lady, dated I856, London, and signed BANDEL,
which may possibly represent Jenny Lind (Vide NEum. Chronicle,
I907,p. 22I).
BANFIELD (Canad.). Die-cutter at Toronto (Canada), nineteenth
century.
BANNISTER, W. (Brit.). Deputy Mint-master at Madras, in charge
from July 1837 to March 1839:
BAPTISTA, A. (Poring.). Editor of a medal commemorating the
Fourth centenary of the Discovery of India, allusive to Camoens,
I898.
BAQUET (French). Wax Modeller, about 1773. He was an exhibitor at the Society of Artists.
BAR, JEAN DE (Flem.). Mint-master at Brussels, 143 I-35.
BARANOFF, WASSILI (B.D.M., I904, p. 121). Medallist; about
1843 was a pupil of the Petrograd Academy; appointed Medallist to the Court 1846, Senior Medallist in I852, and pensioned off
in;866 on account of blindness. He was an excellent copyist, for
which reason most of his medals are marked K. His principal medals
are: Prize-Medal of the Chirurg.-medical Academy of Wilna; -
Portrait-medal of Admiral Adam Joh. v. Krusenstern; - Medal of
the Caucasian Agricultural Society, etc. Vide W. Neumann, in Dr
Thieme's Allg. Kuinstler-Lexikon.
BARATTINI. FRANCESCO (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 121). The
late Signor Comm. G. Bignami, of Rome, presented me with a
medal of Eustace Manfred, astronomer of Bologna, undated, which