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ADAMS, GEORGE GAMMON
ADAMS, GEORGE GAMMON (Brit.). British Sculptor and Medallist, born at Staines, on the 21st of April 1821 ; died at his residence, Acton Green Lodge, Chiswick, on the 4th of March 1898, aged 76 years, and was buried in the family vault in Staines Cemetery. He was educated at Kepler House School, and at sixteen, was articled by his father to William Wyon, R. A. in the Royal Mint, where he remained for 4 1/2 years, and...

ADMON
ADMON (?) Fictitious name of a Greek Artist, which appears on several gems, probably dating from the last century. Among these we may mention the famous Hercules Bibax, sard (Marlborough cabinet); — Hercules, aged head, signed A? (Gori); — Hercules Musagetes (Poniatowsky) ; — Alexander, as Hercules; — Hercules reposing (Cades); — Augustus : cameo (De la Turbie) ; — Head of Ammon : sard (Cades) ; — Vulcan offering arm...

ADOLFZOON, CHRISTOPH
ADOLFZOON, CHRISTOPH (Dutch). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century. His best works date from 1666 to 1676 but only four medals are known bearing his signature, which is C.A. or CAD. : Naval Action with the Dutch, 1666, Michael de Ruyter, 1666, his finest piece of work, for which he is said to have been paid a thousand ducats (several varieties); — Peace of Breda, 1667; — Alliance of England and Holl...

ADRIANO FIORENTINO
ADRIANO FIORENTINO (Ital.). Medallist of the second half of the fifteenth century, who worked at Naples (1483-1495), Urbino (1495) and in Saxony, and died in 1499. He belonged to the Florentine family de' Maestri, and was a pupil of Bertoldo, whose works of sculpture he was employed to cast. As a Sculptor, he executed a bust, dated 1498, of Frederick the Wise of Saxony (now in the Albertinum at Dresden). Herr von Fab...