Croatian Mint

BADDELEY, JOHN
BADDELEY, JOHN (Brit.). London Die-sinker of the first half of the nineteenth century. He worked as a trade medallist and was practically unknown outside the trade, with whom however he enjoyed a reputation for good workmanship. His business was carried on for thirty years in Hackney; the original house, established by his father, John Baddeley, of Compton St., Clerkenwell, combined with medal and button die-work, de...

BAEREND, KARL EMMANUEL
BAEREND, KARL EMMANUEL (Germ.). Sculptor and Engraver. Born in 1770, at Duela, in Poland, he was a pupil of Höckner and contributed several medals commemorating events of the Saxon Regency, and Medallic-portraits of Mozart and the Casanova family. At the Fine Art Exhition of 1794 at Dresden were a number of proofs in wax of medals in high relief. As a sculptor, he was trained by Casanova, in remembrance of whom he c...

BAETES, JULES
BAETES, JULES (Belg.). Medallist of Antwerp, son of F. Baetes, and brother of Leon Baetes, all Engravers of medals. He is the author of several works, amongst others, a commemorative piece of the Treaty of the Hague, 1795-1895 . I have seen the signature F. BAETES on a Portrait-medal of William III. of Holland 1883; — The Chamber of Commerce of Antwerp (J. BAETES); — Schools of Design of Antwerp ; — Antwerp Exchange ...

BAGNO, CESARE DA
BAGNO, CESARE DA (ltal.). A Florentine Medallist of the first half of the sixteenth century, who also did some good work in gemengraving. His real name was Cesare di Niccolo di Mariano Federighi ; he was born about 1530 at Santa Maria in Bagno, died at Milan in 1564. The medal illustrated above of Alfonso II. d'Avalos and Fernando Francesco II. d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara, Viceroy of L. Forrer. — Biographical Notice...