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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F. (Brit.). A variety of the Proof or Pattern Mohur of
William IV., I835, for the East India Company bears on truncation of head the Mint-master, Capt. M.N. Forbes' initial F.
F. (Brit.). Engraver's signature on a Portrait-medal of the famous
Chevalier d'Eon, I777.
FABER (Swiss). Mint-master at Basle, circ. I441. Cf. M.A.
Ruegg, Schw. Kstler Lex., Suppl. 141 and Rev. suisse de num., 1915.
FABII, F.M. (B.D.M., Vol. II, p. 64). This Venetian artist
practised his art in Vienna and cut numerous cameos, including an
Otho, a Pallas, and an Alexander in sardonyx. Among his intaglios
were sards with head of Julia, daughter of Titus, Pallas and Cybele
(cf. Duffield Osborne, Engraved Gems, p. I84).
FABIO, FABBIO (Ital.). Contemporary Sculptor of Florence, whose
name occurs on a Portrait-medal of Vittorio Alfieri, first centenary,
1903. I have also seen by him: Portrait-medallion of Donatello
(signed: F. FABBII PICTOR. FECIT); - Serristoro di Ser Jacopo de
Priori (signed: OPVS. FABBI. PICTORIS). Both are well executed,
and in the style of Pisanello.
FABRIS, ANTONIO (B.D.M., Vol. II, p. 64). This clever
Medallist was born at Udine, about [79I, and at first worked as a
goldsmith; he later studied at Rome, and in 1823 produced his
medal on the death of Antonio Canova, which was imitated by
Putinati and Samuele Passamonti. In I834, Fabris executed for the
Venetian Academy of Fine Arts a medal on the death of the historian Leopoldo Cicognara. His Dante medal, which he did for the
Grand Duke of Tuscany, is dated I83 I. By him are also: Medal of
Ladislaus Pyrker, Archbishop of Venice; - Marco Filippo
Uccelli; - Archduke Peter Leopold; - Rafael Morghen; -
Sismondi; - Padre Ottavio Assarotti; - Dante; - Petrarca; -
Alfieri; - Schiller; - Daniel Manin, large Portrait-medallion,
I849; - Monument to Titian at Venice, 1862; - Polo medal
with view of the Palace of the Doges; - Horticultural Medal of