17th century, male.
Monogram of an engraver (etching).
Active towards the end of the 17th century; cited by Brulliot. Known as the engraver of a garland of flowers and fruit probably designed for use as a model by silversmiths and goldsmiths.
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French, 16th century, male.
Active in Metz in 1596.
Sculptor, founder, metal worker.
School of Lorraine.
Working with four founders, Hutinet, Dubois, Sonois and Voitié, François Abel cast the bell of the cathedral of Metz in eastern France.
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Swiss, 19th century, male.
Born 24 September 1800, in Winterthur; died 19 December 1872, in Winterthur.
Engraver, sculptor, medallist.
Son and pupil of the engraver Johann Aberli. His name crops up in Lyons in 1821 and Paris in 1823. Around 1825 to 1828 he worked in Winterthur. From ...
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Italian, 16th century, male.
Born 1538; died 22 May 1591, in Vienna.
Sculptor, medallist.
Prague School.
Antonio Abondio appears to have been the great 16th-century master in his field. He worked first in Munich at the court of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, then in Prague, where he was employed at the court of Emperor Rudolph II. In ...
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Filipino, 20th century, male.
Born 1930, in Bohol, Philippines.
Sculptor. Figures, historical subjects, religious subjects, allegory, myths.
Napoleon Veloso Abueva graduated in 1953 from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UPCFA), where he was mentored by the first National Artist for Sculpture, Guillermo Tolentino. He received another scholarship from the Fulbright/Smith–Mundt Foundation and in 1955 finished his master’s degree at the Cranbook Academy of Art in Michigan. He also studied at the University of Kansas and Harvard University. Regarded as pioneer of Philippine modern sculpture, Abueva also works in the figurative style and uses a variety of material, such as local hardwood, metal, marble, adobe, and cement. Among his early innovations are his ‘buoyant sculptures’, which he introduced in 1951. Many of his works are at the University of the Philippines campus in Quezon City, including the Crucifix of the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice (1957...
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French, 20th century, male.
Born 1904, in Paris; died 27 August 1967, in Perros-Guirec (Côtes-d'Armor).
Sculptor (including bronze), engraver (burin). Monuments, designs for tapestries, stage costumes and sets.
Henri Adam's father, a goldsmith and jeweller, taught him the rudiments of the trade while he was studying at the Collège Lavoisier. He also took classes in drawing, first at the École Germain-Pillon and subsequently at the Atelier de la Ville de Paris in Montparnasse, before moving to the École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited various paintings between ...
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British, 19th century, male.
Born 21 April 1821, in Staines; died 4 March 1898, in Chiswick.
Sculptor, medallist.
George Adams studied at the Royal Mint under William Wyon and made his name with a sculpture based on a miniature of Queen Victoria. Adams then embarked on a major series of works, including eight portrait statues in Trafalgar Square....
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French, 15th century, male.
Goldsmith. Religious subjects.
Adrien de Tours was paid a sum of 431 pounds and 10 sols in 1492 for the production of a shrine to St Eutrope.
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Swiss, 18th century, male.
Born c. 1720, in Glaris; died 1750, in Glaris.
Engraver (copper), medallist.
A self-portrait engraved by him is documented.
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Syrian, 13th century, male.
Metal worker.
Ahmad ibn Umar al Dhaki is thought to have come from Mosul, and had a famous workshop and numerous apprentices. Three leather objects, one in Cleveland Museum, one at the Louvre and one in a private collection in Switzerland, are signed by him and dated between ...
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Polish, 19th – 20th century, female.
Active in France.
Born in Lopatynka.
Sculptor, medallist. Busts.
A student of Falguière and of the medal engraver Daniel Dupuis, Iza Albazzi exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris from 1896 to 1923 and was honoured for medal engraving in ...
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Italian, 17th – 18th century, male.
Active in Florence.
Sculptor, medallist.
Cited by Zani. Alberghetti would appear to come from a well-known family of artists of the same name who worked from the Renaissance to the end of the 18th century as both casters and sculptors in Ferrara, Florence and Venice (where several were in charge of casting operations at the Artillery)....
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German, 17th century, male.
Born in Dresden.
Painter, engraver.
Trained from 1611 to 1622 under a goldsmith, but then went over to painting. He did a portrait of Johann Zechendorf, rector and professor in Zwickau, which he engraved from the painting. This work shows him to have been uncommonly gifted....
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male.
Sculptor in bronze.
Ancient Greek.
According to Pliny, Alcon made a metal statue of Heracles for Rhodes.
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Italian, 15th – 16th century, male.
Active in Perugia.
Born 1479 or 1480; died after 1553.
Painter. Religious subjects.
Domenico di Paride was the son of the goldsmith Paride Alfani. He studied with Perugino and was a fellow student of Raphael and Rosso Fiorentino. His son Orazio was his greatest disciple, and for many years a number of his works were attributed to his son....
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Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1932, in Naples.
Sculptor.
Minimal Art.
Carlo Alfano participated in the Biennale in Venice in 1967. His sculptures are Abstract and are linked to the Minimalist movement. They are formed from metal tubes arranged on the same plane.
Milan, 6 Nov 1973...
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Dutch, 16th century, male.
Active in Amsterdam during the first half of the 16th century.
Engraver, goldsmith.
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German, 16th – 17th century, male.
Active in Augsburg in 1570.
Born c. 1547, in Colmar; died 1617, in Augsburg.
Enameller, goldsmith.
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German, 18th century, male.
Active in Lübeck.
Painter.
He made copies of paintings by old masters. His painting of The Punishment of Ananias and Sapphira after Raphael's cartoon, preserved in the Goldsmiths' Chapel at St Peter's in Lübeck, is of little artistic merit. It is signed by him and dated ...
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German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1874, in Hanau; died 1913, in Berlin.
Sculptor, worker in precious metals. Figures. Designs (ceramics/metal objects).
Jugendstil.
Adolf Amberg trained at the academy of fine arts in Berlin. He went to Paris and worked at the Académie Julian, exhibiting at the Salon of ...
