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ABERL(2.) JAKOB FRIEDRICH
ABERLI. JAKOB FRIEDRICH (Swiss). Medallist and Gem-engraver, born at Winterthur on the 24. September 1800, where he died on the 19. December 1872. He was a pupil of his father, Johann Aberli, and visited Lyons in 182 1 and Paris in 1825. Between 1825 and 1828 he resided at Winterthur, and in 1829, settled at Zurich where he remained until 1845, when he returned to Winterthur. Aberli's works all commemorate events tha...

ABONDIO, ALESSANDRO
ABONDIO, ALESSANDRO (Ital.), the son of Antonio Abondio, was born about 1580, and did not die before 1653. He worked for the Austria and Bavarian courts; and the Imperial Collection at Vienna possesses the following medals by him: Archduke Maximilian, 1612; — Maximilian I. of Bavaria; — Mathias, as King of Hungary and Bohemia, 1611; — another, as Roman Emperor, 1612; — Empress Anna, Consort of Mathias, 1612; — Archdu...

ABONDIO, ALESSANDRO (2.)
ABONDIO, ALESSANDRO or ANTONIO, THE ELDER (Ital.), the father of Antonio Abondio, to distinguish from whom he is generally called Abondio the Elder, was a celebrated Modeller in wax, during the first half of the sixteenth century. He claimed descent from one of the noblest families of Florence and had been trained under Michaelangelo, who had imparted to him some of his wonderful genius. Between 1575 and 1584 he was ...

ABONDIO, ANTONIO, THE YOUNGER
ABONDIO, ANTONIO, THE YOUNGER (Ital.). Painter, Sculptor, Medallist and Wax-modeller, born at Milan in 1538 (?), died at Vienna, on the 22nd May, 1591 . His father, Alessandro Abondio, descended from a noble family of Ascanio near Locarno, was a pupil of Michelangelo. Under him, the young Antonio was initiated in the art of modelling, and it would seem that he worked, for a time at least, under the great medallist, L...