HOFMANN, or HO FFM AN N, W olfgang Hieronymus, w as a counter-
maker a t Nuremberg. He worked in th e first h a lf of th e las t century.—
ii. 431.
HOGER, Johann Conrad, was also a manufacturer of counters, and
lived a t Nuremberg, where he worked in the early p a rt of th e las t century,
from 1710 to 1720.—ii. 414.
H O L T ZH E T , Johann Georg, son of Martin Holtzhey (See th e
following), b. a t Amsterdam in 1729, was appointed Master of th e Mint
in Zealand in 1754, and died in 1808. He executed several medals for
Louis X V I., and Napoleon Bonaparte.—ii. 669, 693, 701.
HO L T ZH EY , Martin, father of th e preoeding, b. a t Ulm in 1697,
settled a t Amsterdam, where he was appointed Master of th e Mint in
1752. Died a t Middleburg in 1764. He was an excellent medallist,—ii. 497,
506, 509, 510, 512, 614, 615, 619, 627, 628, 630, 637-640, 642, 645, 678.
HO N D IH S , Jodocus, b. in Flanders in 1563, in his early days
made mathematical instruments and types for printing. He settled in
London in 1583 and followed th e a rt of cosmography, and with his graver
made pieces of “ Sir Francis Drake’s voyage about ye world, th e Holy
Land, and divers others.” He returned after some years to Holland, and
died a t Amsterdam in 1611. (See V ertue Add. MSS. B. M. 23,069: p 30 )
—i. 131.
I. B., engraver's initials, which occur on a badge executed as a m emorial
of the B attle of th e Boyne, supposed to be th e badge of an Orange Lodge
in Cork.—i. 719.
. I. D. B., the initials of an engraver who worked in Germany early in the
seventeenth century, and executed medals of Frederick, Count P a la tin e ,
and Princess Elizabeth of England.— i. 201, 202.
I. H., initials of an engraver who made a medal of George I I . and
Queen Caroline.—ii. 482.
I. M., initials of an engraver who executed medals relating to V ernon’s
capture of F o rt Chagre in 1740, &c.—ii. 546, 560.
INGRAM, Thomas Wells, engraver and die-sinker, was employed a t
th e Soho Mint, Birmingham. He worked from about 1820 to .1865 —
i. 211.
I. P. L., perhaps th e initials of the Mint Master of Munster in 1691,
as they occur on a medal bearing those of th e engraver, Johann Hohn
—ii. 18.
I. W., initials of an engraver who made medals relating to the taking
of Porto Bello in 1739, F o rt Chagre in 1740, and Carthagena in 1741 &c
—ii. 535, 539,548, 554.
OF ENGRAVERS, ARTISTS, ETC. 729
JO N G H E L IN CK , Jacques, b. a t Antwerp in 1530, d. in th a t city,
31 May, 1606. He was celebrated as a medallist, an engraver of seals,
and a worker and caster of bronze statues. His most noted work is the
monument of Charles th e Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a t Bruges.—i. 77, 78,
82, 84, 85.
JU N K E R , Johann Georg, was a pupil of Christian Wermuth, and
worked a t Gotha about 1708. He afterwards removed to Leipzig, in
which place there are records of him till about 1716.—ii. 319, 346.
K A R L S T E EN , Arvid, medallist and miniature painter, b. a t Karl-
skoga in Sweden in 1647, studied under Varin in Pa ris and Roettier in
London. Returning to his native country he was appointed Court-medal-
list, and in 1692 was placed in the rank of th e nobility. Died in Stockholm
in 1718. He executed a series of medals of Kings of Sweden from
Gustavus I. to Charles X II., and another of eminent persons, besides
numerous medals for foreign courts.—i. 546, 588; ii. 182.
K IRK , A., was probably a brother of Jo h n Kirk. He lived in St.
P au l’s Churchyard and appears to have died in 1761.—ii. 606, 608, 613
614.
K IR K , John, medallist, was a pupil of James Anthony Dassier. H e
executed a large number of medals and medalets, and received premiums
from the Society of Arts. He lived in St. Paul’s Churchyard, and died
there, 27 Nov. 1776.—i. 61, 110, 209, 260, 398, 430, 431, 435, 564, 565; ii.
514, 559, 560, 587, 588, 591, 592, 597, 603, 606, 608-611,613,614,620,622
623, 626, 631, 651, 661, 662, 687, 702, 706, 712.
K L E IN E R T , Friedrich, b. in 1633, a native of Bartenstein in Prussia,
came to Nuremberg, where with Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer, Chief Warden
of the Mint of th a t city, he issued a large series of medals of contempora
ry events. He was the first in Germany to make use of machinery for
inscribing th e edges of medals. Died in 1714.—i. 676,681,683, 717;
ii. 16, 56, 61, 62, 98, 102, 126, 134, 263, 269, 290.
KOCH, Johann, was Master of the Mint a t Dresden from 1688 to 1698
—ii. 80.
KOCH, Jo h an n Christian, b. a t Aken on th e Elbe in 1680, was a pupil
of Christian Wermuth and Raimund Faltz. About 1730 he entered th e
service of th e Dukes of Saxe-Gotha, to whom he was attached till his
death in 1742.—ii. 302-305, 559.
KOCH, Ludwig Christian, a son of the preceding, was an engraver,
and worked a t Gotha between 1750 and 1793.—ii. 659.
K O EN E, D., a Dutch medallist, who worked in 1691 and made medals
commemorating the re turn of William I I I . to Holland, &o. His worts
are very few, and little is known of him.—ii. 14, 45.