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French medallist, engraver and illustrator. He was first apprenticed to the medallist André Lavau (d 1808) and then attended the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture in Bordeaux. In 1786 he travelled to Paris and entered the workshop of Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux. His first great success was a large, realistic and highly detailed medal representing the ...

Italian, male.

Metal worker, engraver (burin).

On record as having worked on (bound or gilded) the choir books in Ferrara Cathedral.

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1920, in Paris.

Painter, lithographer, illustrator. Animals. Medals.

The son of an architect, and a gifted student of chemical engineering, Jacques Birr discovered painting at a very young age. As a Bachelor of Science, he pursued a career in the printed fabrics sector of industry. In ...

Polish goldsmith, engraver and writer. He produced engraved frontispieces for J. Liberius’s book The Blessed Virgin Mary’s Sea Star (1670) and his own work St Elegius’s Life … (1687). He is noted in the guild records from 1689. Few of his silver pieces have been identified, as he did not use name marks. The impressive monstrance in St Mary’s church in Kraków is attributed to him. Works that are certainly by him include the ‘robes’ on the painting of the ...

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1867, in Annecy; died after 1926.

Painter, watercolourist, engraver, medallist, illustrator, art writer. Portraits, scenes with figures.

André Charles Coppier exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français and at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, of which he was a member. He was awarded silver at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in ...

Czech, 20th century, male.

Active from 1912 in France; naturalised from 1926.

Born 22 October 1883, in Boskovice; died 17 October 1969, in Marseilles, France.

Painter, engraver (etching), illustrator, sculptor. Figures, nudes, landscapes with figures, still-lifes (flowers). Busts, low reliefs, medals.

Osma Group (The Eight)...

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 28 February 1865, in Munich; died 1954.

Painter, illustrator, engraver, medallist. Religious subjects, mythological subjects.

After doing an apprenticeship with an engraver Maximilian Dasio entered the Munich academy in 1884, where he studied under Heterich and W. von Diez. Following the success of his sets for the Deutsches Theater, he obtained a scholarship which enabled him to stay in Rome. On his return to Munich he became a teacher at the Damenakademie from ...

German painter, medallist, designer and illustrator. He trained as a painter in the Munich Akademie from 1884, and initially won fame in this art with large decorative schemes on mythological or religious themes (e.g. Bacchanal, c. 1888; Munich, Villa Schülein) and portraits painted in a broad, realistic manner (e.g. ...

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1 May 1916, in Hanoi, Vietnam; died 1988.

Painter, engraver (wood/copper), illustrator. Murals, designs for mosaics, stage costumes and sets, posters, comic strips, decorative designs, medals, postage stamps.

After studying at the school of fine arts in Hanoi in 1935...

French, 20th century, male.

Born 7 March 1912, in St-Étienne; died 5 December 1995, in Paris.

Painter, watercolourist, engraver, lithographer, illustrator, medallist. Wall decorations, designs for tapestries, designs for mosaics, designs for stained glass, frescoes, ceramics.

Jacques Despierre entered the studio of Lucien Simon at the École Nationale Superieur des Beaux-Arts in Paris in ...

German, 19th century, male.

Born 19 November 1865, in Hamburg; died 11 June 1902, in Badenweiler.

Painter, decorative artist, illustrator, engraver, designer, ceramicist, textile designer. Portraits, landscapes, flowers. Designs for stained glass, designs for tapestries, ex-libris plates, advertising posters, fabrics, ceramics, metal objects, ironware, lamps, furniture, typefaces, jewellery, wallpaper...

German goldsmith, engraver and draughtsman. Probably from a long-established Warburg family of freemen, he is first fully named in 1578, in an engraving that shows his connections with scholars as an illustrator of academic works. One of these was Michele Mercati, for whom Eisenhoit worked during a stay in Rome ...

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1905, in Paris; died 12 November 2000, in Paris.

Painter, engraver, illustrator, designer, medallist, graphic designer.

Raymond Gid designed his first posters in 1925, including Tennis Internationals (1925), Musée de l'Homme, Paris (1931) and the review ...

British, 19th century, male.

Engraver (wood).

W. T. Green made engravings after R. Doyle, J. Gilbert, D. Maclise, C. Stanfield and others. He illustrated various books including Oliver Goldsmith's Poetic Works and Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens after drawings by M. Stone.

Belgian, 18th century, male.

Active in Brussels.

Draughtsman, engraver, goldsmith.

Grondoni published two notebooks of sketches (of medallions, boxes, sword-handles) for silversmiths.

French, 20th century, male.

Born 29 September 1935, in Philippeville, Algeria.

Painter, draughtsman, watercolourist, engraver, medallist, illustrator. Figures, landscapes. Wall decorations, designs for stained glass, postage stamps.

Irolla's figurative painting is traditional, depicting the skies of Champagne, its valleys, vineyards, village churches and streets. He executed stained glass windows (Châlons-sur-Marne), mural decorations (Vitry-le-François, St-Memmie, Châlons-sur-Marne) and numerous postage stamps. He also illustrated several books, notably ...

Dutch, 16th – 17th century, male.

Born 1563, in Nuremberg; died 1618, in Nuremberg.

Goldsmith, engraver (burin).

Jamnitzer was a student and nephew of Wenzel, and probably the son of Albrecht Jamnitzer. In 1600, he published a series of three books, each containing 21 prints, entitled ...

French, 17th century, male.

Born 17th century, in Lyons.

Goldsmith, engraver.

Jordot was established in Grenoble in 1658, where he engraved colophons for printers and booksellers. An engraver of the name of Jordot engraved tokens towards the middle of the 17th century.

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1940, in Bomal-sur-Ourthe.

Sculptor, painter, engraver, medallist, illustrator. Busts.

Marc Laffineur studied in Liège at the Institut Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de St-Luc and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. He aligned himself with the Cap d'Encre group of artists and was a founder member of the St Hubert woodcut engraving studio. As a sculptor, he worked in both wood and metal, assembling strips of meticulously polished wood juxtaposed with highly-polished metal ribbons. As an illustrator, he is noted principally as a medallist. Laffineur was awarded the town of Catania engraving prize....

British, 18th century, male.

Active in London at the beginning of the 18th century.

Medallist, engraver (etching/burin), draughtsman. Architectural views.

Sutton Nicol worked mainly for bookshops and produced a large number of plates. His best works are etchings. In 1725 he published Prospects of the Most Considerable Buildings about London...