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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London, in I83o and in the year I852 was appointed Deputy
Master and Comptroller, which office he held until his death on
August 25 th, i868.
BASELIERS, PIERRE (Flen.). Mint-master at Antwerp, i 8I-I 585.
BASIRE, GUILLAUME (French). Mint master at Saint-Lo, I470 -1484; succeeded by JEHAN B., I484-1494, and RICHARD B., I494 -5o8. In 1486 Guillaume Basire was appointed Mint-master at Tours
for a period of five years, in succession to Jehan Basire (I).
BASIRE, GUILLAUME (French). Mint-master at Tours, 1493-1 497:
three dots after a tower.
BASIRE, JEHAN (French). Mint-master at Saint-Lo, I49I-I494:
a tower.
BASIRE, RICHARD (French). Mint-master at Saint-Lo, I495: a
flower.
BASSI, GIAN MARIA (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 134). Said to
have worked at Florence.
BASSON, PHILIPPE (French). Mint-master at Aix, 1517-I523: a
star.
BAST, LIEVEN AMAND MARIE DE(B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. I34).
Born, March 2, 1787, at Ghent; died there, to. September I832.
He was already, at the age of five, a pupil of Tiberghien.
BASTIAN BROS & CO (Alier.) of Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A. Issuers
of the medal of the Medical Society of the State of New York,
20 mill.; - Rochester Numismatic Association, Third Anniversary
Medal, I914 (by J.A. Koeb),etc.
BASTIN (Flem.). Mint-master at Antwerp, Brussels, Louvain, and
Maestricht, during the second third of the xiIth century.
BASTOYGNE, HERMAN DE (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 134). Born,
as his name indicates, at Bastogne in Luxemburg; worked in the
second half of the sixteenth century, and resided at Brussels, where
in 1574 he engraved the Seal of the community of Dilbeck
(A. Wauters, Histoire des environs de Bruxelles, I, 187).
BATES, HENRY (or HARRY) (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. I35).
Born in I85o, died in 1889; pupil of Dalou and Rodin; A.R.A.
London.
The National Gallery, London, possesses a statue by him,
Pandora.