K O EN IG , Anton Friedrich, b. a t Berlin in 1756, was th e son of the
miniature p ainter of the same name. He studied engraving under Loos,
and in 1776 went to Breslau, where he was Engraver to th e Mint from
1776 to 1803.—i: 141.
K R A UW IN K E L , Hans, was a manufacturer of counters. He lived
a t Nuremberg and worked from about 1580 to 1603. His counters are
very numerous and many of them are of a historical character.—i. 51,
184.
K U OHL ER , 0. H „ a native of Flanders, worked from 1790 to 1804 in
Germany, France, and a t Birmingham; while in the las t place he was
employed by Boulton a t th e Soho Mint.—i. 209.
LAMBELET, Samuel, was a native of Clausthal and medallist to the
House of Brunswick-Luneburg, from about 1699 to 1727. I t would
appear th a t previous to 1699 he went to Paris and was engaged on the
medallic series of Louis XIV.—i. 654, 713; ii. 218.
LA U F FE R , Caspar Gottlieb, was a Master of the Mint a t Nuremberg
early in th e eighteenth century. He appears to be often confused with
Carl Gottlieb Lauffer, th e engraver.—ii. 356.
LA U F FE R , Conrad, a medallist of Nuremberg, who in 1670 received
a special permission to strike counters “ for games and reckoning.”
These often bore th e busts of European monarchs.—i. 494, 538.
LA U F FE R , Johann Gottlieb, another member of th e same family of
counter-makers, lived a t Nuremberg, and worked a t the beginning of the
eighteenth century.—ii. 239, 265, 425.
L A U F FE R , Lazarus Gottlieb, Medallist and Chief Warden of the Mint
a t Nuremberg from 1670 to 1690. After this date he appears to have
gone to Vienna and to have worked in partnership with Georg Hautsch.
—i. 667.
L A U F F E R , Lazarus Gottlieb, a counter-maker of Nuremberg, perhaps
a son of th e preceding. He worked in th e early p a rt of th e las t
century.—i. 493, 606, 607, 679, 692; ii. 412, 413.
L. A. V., probably th e initials of a Mint Master of Guelderland.
They occur on a medalet commemorating th e Peace of 1544 —i. 45. 46.
L. B., initials of an engraver who made medals with the p o rtra it of
Thomas Herne. (See Nos. 409, 410, Vol. I I . pp. 148,149.) He was probably
a Spaniard.—ii. 148.
L E CLERC, Sebastian, an ingenious draughtsman and engraver, b. a t
Metz in 1637, studied a t first under his father, a goldsmith, and in 1665
came to Paris where he worked with Charles Le Brun. I n 1672 he was
appointed Professor of perspective a t th e Royal Academy of Painting,
and, later on, private engraver to Louis XIV. He designed a large
number of types for the medallic series of th a t monarch, and there is in
th e British Museum a MS. volume containing his original designs for
this work, with notes by members of th e Academy, M. de Pontchar-
train , Louis X IV . himself, and others. Died a t Paris 25 Oct. 1714.—
i. 425, 427, 653, 708; ii. 69, 71, 73, 84, 87, 88.
L EH E E R , Christoph Jacob, a medallist of Augsburg, where he
worked from 1683 to 1707. His works are few, bu t of good execution,
especially th e medal with th e p o rtrait of Leonhard Weiss. His end was
tragic, as he was beheaded for striking false coins.—ii. 47.
LEON, L., a French medallist, who worked during the middle of the
last century and was engaged on the medallic series of Louis XV.—
ii. 680.
L E ONI, Leone, a native of Arezzo. The dates of his b irth and death
are unknown. The excellence of his work as a goldsmith and medallist
a ttracted th e a ttention of th e Emperor, Charles V., of whom Leoni made
several statues and casts in marble and bronze. He also assisted in the
decorations of th e tomb of Jacopo de’ Medici a t Florence, and of th e
Escnrial a t M ad rid—i. 74, 76.
L EO N I, Pompeo, son of the preceding, succeeded to his father’s work
in Spain, and was employed in th e decorations of th e Escurial. H e
returned to Ita ly and worked a t Milan between 1582 and 1592. He is
said to have died a t Madrid in 1610; according to others a t M ila n® |
i. 118.
L IV EN S , or L IEV EN S , Jan , the great Dutch painter and engraver,
b. a t Leyden in 1607, came to England in 1630, and executed paintings of
Charles I. and Hen rietta Maria. Three years later he returned to
Antwerp, where he died in 1663.—i. 404.
LODER, Robert, lived a t Woodbridge in Suffolk, and “ p u b lish ed ”
in 1796 a token with th e b u st and arms of Thomas Seckford.—i. 144.
LOOFF, Jan , a medallist of Middleburg, worked between 1627 and
1648. He received a special permission from th e States-General of
Holland to commemorate remarkable events by medals. His best known
productions, besides those described in th is work, are those referring to
th e taking of Bois-le-Duc in 1629 and the cession of Breda in 1648.—
i. 284, 285.
LOOS, Daniel, b. a t Altenburg in 1735, d. a t Berlin in 1819. He was
a pupil of Johann Friedrich Stieler, and in 1756 went to Prussia, and
was made Chief Engraver and Medallist to th e Court a t Berlin.—i. 22.
LUDER, Jan , a Dutch medallist, whose works date from about 1680
to 1710. He executed a large number of medals of William and Mary,