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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LOEWENTHAL, A. (Austr.). A firm of Die-sinkers and Engravers at
Vienna. They issued a Portrait-medal of Dr. Adolf Hoffmann, 1902
(obv. signed LOWENTHAL), and a series of Medals commemorating
Events and German-Austrian Personages who played a role in the
European War, I914/I5: Grand Admiral von Tirpitz; -Field
Marshal von Hindenburg; - Francis Joseph I and William II. as
Allies; - Alliance of Austria and Germany; JR. o5 mill.; - The
War of I914-1916; bust of William II; cast iron, 58 mill.; -
Field Marshal von Hindenburg, deliverer of East Prussia and Victor
over the Russians, 914; Io mill.; - Another type, I915
(Siegfried taming the bear); - General von Kluck; At. 34 mill.;
- Vice Admiral Count von Spee; iron, 98 mill.; JR. 50 mill.;
-Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, 1915; AR. 5o mill; iron,
73 mill.; - Capt. Otto Weddingen; iron casting, II5 mill.; -
Honour to our Heroes; AR. 50 mill.; - Field Marshal Count
von Haeseler, I915; iron, 102 mill.; - The Reichstag Speech of
4. August I914; - The Quadruple Alliance; -General von
Billow, I916; iron, 82 mill., etc.
LOGAN, JOHN (B.D.M., Vol. III, p. 454). "Seal- and GemEngraver; was born at Duncannon Fort, Co. Waterford, on
Ith August, 1750. He learned his art in Dublin, and for many
years was the principal Seal-engraver in the city, holding the
appointment of " King's Seal-cutter". He lived at 1 Townsend
Street from 1782 to I784, at 42 Aungier St. until 179, and afterwards at 6 Great George's St. and Io Aungier St. He retired from
his profession in I802, having injured his health by too close
application to his work. He became mentally affected, and died in
I8o5. A "Portrait-gem of Dr. Lucas" and a "Head of Alexander
the Great on white cornelian" are perhaps his best known works. A
cameo-portrait of Dr. Quin, by Logan, taken from Mossop's
medal, was reproduced by James Tassie in his glass paste" (Walter
J. Strickland, Dictionary of Irish Artists, II, p. 23).
LOHSE (Germ.). Mint-contractor at Wernigerode, I620.
LOISEAU-BAILLY, GEORGES (B.D.M., Vol. III, p. 455). At the
Salon, 1907, this artist exhibited eight models in plastiline of Plaquettes: Moissonneurs; - Vieux jardinier, etc.; - I908. Five
Plaquettes: Rosa Bonheur; - Grand'mere et fillettes de l'ile de
Re; - Decorative composition; - i909. A. Chopin; - Harmony; - Priory of Saint-Jean-les-Bonshommes (Yonne); - Un
vieux Morvandiau; - Mile B1. Artaud; - I9I0. Moissonneurs;
- I912. Enfant de Jersey; - Marcel et Yvonne Herscher; -
Prieure de Saint-Jean (Yonne); - Morvan Avallonais.