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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Rococo period, whereas in his later productions he appears to have
assimilated fully the Empire style.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. - St6cklein, in U. Thieme, Allgem. Kiinstlerlex., IX, 54.
DESVIGNES, LOUIS (French). Contemporary Sculptor, born at
Creusot; pupil of Raoul Vernet, Henri Dubois and P. Auban. At
the Salon of 1907 he exhibited several medals: Inspiration;
Sancta Caecilia; - Gloria; - Paladin; - Various Portraits; -
I908. Seven Plaquettes and Medallions; - 1909. Charity; - Eros
and Psyche; - Harmony; - Agricultural Medal; -- Muse; -
Pleureuse; - Sylphe; - Danseuse; — The Dreamer; - The
Reader;- Portraits; - Faun playing the flute; - Brittany girl;
-Spanish girl; -Old shepherd;- 19 0. Frame containing various
Medallions and Plaquettes: Monks and a Portrait; - 9 12. Mme Desvignes; - I913. Orpheus medal; - I914. A frame of Medals
and Plaquettes; - Aux morts; - Va Fils, etc.
DETWEILER, D' PETER (Germ.). The famous Director of the
Falkenstein Sanatorium for Tuberculosis is the author of a self portrait surrounded by dragons, etc. This plaque, which is in Dr F. P.
Weber's collection, is of very curious execution.
DEVAMBEZ, J. LEIPOLD (Port.). Contemporary Medallist, by whom
is a medal which I have seen of the International Exhibition of Photography at Porto, 1886.
DEVAULX, ALEXANDRE HENRI (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 572).
This artist exhibited at the Paris Salon I9I4 five Portrait-plaquettes:
Petit Jean; - Yvonne; - V. Peter; - M. F***;- Mme F***.
DEVEAUX, E. (Belgian). Designed the reverse of a medal commemorative of the Jubilee of the Separation of Belgium from Holland,
I830-I880.
DE VEAUX, JOHN (Irish). Seal-engraver and Wax Modeller;
flourished I82I-I836. " Born about 1796, he was a pupil of George
Brown, the seal-engraver, with whom he became a partner, and to
whose business he succeeded. The seal of Nathaniel Alexandtr,
Bishop of Meath, was engraved by " Brown and De Veaux " in
I823. From Brown's address, 3 Fownes Street, he exhibited in I82I
a " Head of Sappho, engraved on a cornelian ". In 1830 his name
appears as Seal and Gem-engraver to His Majesty, and in 1831 as
" Crest engraver to the Lord Lieutenant and the Duke of Sussex".
He spent some time in London executing orders. His name does
not appear after I836. In the British Museum is a wax medallion of
Blucher by him; and in the Dublin Museum are a plaster medallion
of the Duke of York, and one of a man unnamed. A portrait of