GILBERT, Michaell, was goldsmith to Mary, Queen of Soots, and a
burgess of Edinburgh. He made or caused to be made, in 1562, dies for
striking a medal with the initials, &c. of George, Lord Seton, and his
wife Isabella.—i. 103.
G IL E S , J., unknown engraver, who made some of th e medals relating
to Vernon’s taking of Porto Bello in 1739.|§ii. 541.
GÔDECKE, Paul Heinrich, a medallist of Hamburg, 1730-1764. He
worked for th e Court of Denmark, and also executed several portrait-
medals of private persons.—ii. 580.
GOLTZIUS, Heinrich, p ainter and engraver, b. a t Mulbrecht in 1558,
travelled in Germany and Ita ly , and finally settled a t Haarlem, where he
died in 1617. H e lea rn t drawing of his father, and engraving of
Coornhert.—i. 135.
GOSSET, Isaac, b. 1712, was an ingenious draughtsman and modeller
in wax. He was descended from a French Huguenot family, who took
refuge in Jersey. H e invented a composition of wax, in which he
modelled portraits of members of th e Royal Family and many distinguished
persons of the time. Died a t Kensington, 28 Nov. 1799.—ii. 621,
706.
GRAVELOT, H u b e rt François B ourguignon, a French engraver and
draughtsman, b. a t Pa ris in 1699, came to England in 1733, and was
much patronized. He returned to Paris in May, 1746, and died there in
1773.—ii. 518.
G. S. The initials of an a rtist who appears to have worked a t Middle-
burg in Holland about th e end of th e sixteenth century.—i. 163.
GUTCHARD, Franz, was an engraver a t Mompelgart, 1610-1620, after
which date till 1628 he worked a t S tu ttg a rt.—i. 229.
H A E S L IN G , Daniel, was a native of E a s t Gothland, and a pupil of
Hedlinger. He was engaged a t th e Mint a t H amburg from 1730 to 1749,
and also worked for th e Courts of Poland and Denmark.—ii. 575, 580.
H A L L ID A V , Thomas, engraver and medallist, lived a t Birmingham,
where his name appears from about 1822 to 1860. He was a manufacturer
of buttons, studs, &c.—i. 60.
H AMERANI, Giovanni, son of Alberto H amerani, b. a t Rome in 1649 ;
was appointed medallist to Pope Alexander V I I I ., and afterwards to
Innocent X I I . and Clement X I. Died 28 July , 1705, leaving behind him
two sons and a daughter, who became noted engravers.—i. 592, 656.
HAMERANI, Otto, son of th e preceding, b. a t Rome, 5 Nov. 1694, d.
in 1768. He was one of th e engravers a t th e Pap a l court, and executed
a large number of medals for the Popes Clement X I. and X II., and
Benedict X I I I . and X IV . He also made several medals for members
of th e exiled S tu a rt family.—ii. 444, 446, 447, 452, 454, 492, 493.
HA N N IBA L, Ehrenreich, b. a t Stockholm in 1678, was a pupil of
Karlsteen, entered in 1705 th e service of th e House of Brunswick, and in
1715 was appointed Master of the Mint a t Clausthal. He also worked
for the Kings of Prussia, th e Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the
city of Hamburg. Died in 1741.—ii. 277, 327,410,420,423,476, 477,492,
512, 513,520, 521.
HA N N IBA L, Martin, son of th e preceding, was sent by . the Hanoverian
Court to Sweden, to study th e a rt of engraving under Hedlinger.
. On his father’s death, in 1741, he was placed a t th e head of the Clausthal
Mint. Died in 1748S-ii. 576.
HA UT SCH, Georg, a native of N uremberg, worked from 1683 to 1712,
a t first in his native city, and was engaged on a series of medals issued
by Kleinert and Lauffer. He afterwards removed to Vienna, where he
continued to work on medals. His private mark was a star.—i. 667, 721;
ii. 17, 39, 41, 59, 67, 139, 168, 235, 245, 252, 256-258, 270, 287, 290, 318,
360, 377, 421.
H A V E , Nicolas de la, a French engraver, appears to have been employed
a t th e Paris Mint, and was also engaged on th e medallic series of
Louis X IV . His works date from 1662 to 1680.—i. 497.
H E D L IN G E R , Jo h an n Carl, b. a t Schwytz in 1691, was one of the
ablest medallists of th e la s t century. He worked for the Swedish
Russian, and Prussian Courts, visiting Stockholm in 1718, St. Petersburg
in 1736-1739, and Berlin in 1742. He was in Freiburg in 1743—4, and
th en revisited Stockholm, where he remained a year. Died a t his native
place in 1771,—ii. 712.
H IL L IA R D , Nicholas, limner and jeweller to Queen Elizabeth and
James I., b, 1547, d. 1619. He was also a miniature painter, and executed
a large number of portraits : and in a p a ten t which he received from
James I., g ranting him a special licence for twelve years, to invent, make,
&c., pictures of th e King and Royal Family, he is callsd an “ embosser of
medals in gold.”—i.,'375.
HÖHN, Johann, engraver of dies, worked in Danzig about the year
1659, and afterwards entered the service of thb House of Brandenburg.
Died in 1693. H e also executed medals of John Casimir, Michael, and
Jo h n Sobieski, kings of Poland.—ii. 18.