T. W., initials of an engraver who made a m e d a lo f William I I I .
commemorating th e suppression of th e rebellion in Ireland in 1690.—
i. 722.
V., initial of an engraver (?) who executed a medal of Charles V. and
Philip I I . of Spain in 1657.—i. 83.
Y., initial of an engraver (?) who worked on th e medallic series of
Louis X IV .—i. 426,
V A R IK , or W A R IN , Jean, b. a t Sedan in 1599, d. in Paris in 1672,
studied painting and the a rt of engraving under Dupre. I n 1646 he was
appointed Engraver to th e Mint a t P a ris, and in 1648 Superintendent-
General of th e Coinage and Keeper of th e Dies. He visited England
and Sweden, and received many commissions. H is medals are esteemed
amongst th e finest a rt productions of th e seventeenth century. M. Natalis
Rondot, in a recent memoir entitled “ Les Sculpteurs de Lyon,” 1884,
states th a t many of th e medallions hitherto a ttrib u ted to Jean Va rin
were executed by Claude Warin, an engraver who worked a t Lyons from
1630 to 1654. This remark does not, however, appear to be applicable to
any of th e medals described in th is work.—i. 200, 268-270, 272, 276, 277,
292.
V E R E , A., an English medallist, who worked in th e middle of th e last
century, b u t of whom no particulars have been found.—ii. 699.
VERTUE , George, line-engraver, b. in London in 1684, practised his a rt
a t an early age and soon came into re p u te ; his portraits alone number
over 500. He was one of th e first members of Kneller’s Academy, a
Eellow of th e Royal Society, and of th e Society of Antiquaries. Died
24 July , 1754.^—ii. 564.
V E STN ER , Andreas, b. in 1707, was th e son of th e following, with
whom he worked from 1720 to 1740, and succeeded in his appointments as
Engraver to th e See of Wurzburg and Court-medallist to th e Elector of
Bavaria. To these he added th a t of E ngraver to th e Mint a t Nuremberg.
Died 1754.—ii. 618, 636.
V E STN E R , Georg Wilhelm, bom 1677, a t Schweinfurt in Bavaria,
studied engraving under IJh l; in 1701 he was engaged by th e Bishop of
Chur, in 1704 he removed to Berlin, from thence he went to Weimar, and
th en on to Nuremberg, where in 1727 he obtained an imperial privilege
to strike medals in his own house. In 1720 he was appointed Engraver
to th e Bishop of Wurzburg, and in 1732 Court-medallist to th e E lector of
Bavaria. Died 1740. Like H au tsch his private mark was a star. I t is
quite possible th a t some of th e medals a ttributed to this medallist were
executed by his son, Andreas.'—ii. 375, 421, 425, 441, 442, 457, 50 , 505,
515, 516, 518.
V IV IE R , Achille (P), a Erench medallist, worked a t Paris from about
1820 to 1859. He executed several medals for th e Durand series.—ii. 584.
■ VOGEL, Johann Adam, a counter-maker, who lived a t Nuremberg
and worked during th e first h a lf of the las t century.—ii. 484.
WAHL, Georg Wilhelm, a pupil of Hedlinger, worked a t Hamburg,
and about 1730 went to Copenhagen, where he was appointed Engraver
to th e Mint, and Master from 1762 to 1764.—ii. 581.
WAHL, Rudolph Philipp, a native of Clausthal and a pupil o f Christian
Wermuth, was appointed Engraver to th e House of Saxe-Eisenach and
also to th e Mint a t Zellerfeld, where he appears to have worked from
1729 to 1763. He executed medals for George I I ., th e Dukes of Brunswick,
and th e House of Orange.—ii. 491.
WAROU, Daniel, a native of Stockholm, studied under Karlsteen.
He worked but. little in Sweden, and settled early in Vienna, where he
died about 1730.—i. 623; ii. 118.
W. B., initials of an engraver who made a medal commemorative of the
repulse of th e rebels in 1745, th e type of which is copied from one by
Thomas Pingo.—ii. 607.
W EB ER , Lorenz Maria, whose father was a German officer in the
service of th e Grand Duke of Tuscany, worked a t Florence from 1720
to 1757. He was much employed by the Medici family.—ii. 573.
W E IG E L , Erhard, astronomer, and Professor of m athematics in Jena,
1625-1699. He designed a medal of Frederick I I ., Duke of Saxe-Gotha,
struck upon his re turn from England in 1693.—ii. 93.
WERMUTH, Christian, b. a t Altenburg in 1661, d. a t Gotha in 1723,
was a pupil of E rn s t Caspar D ü rr of Dresden. In 1686 he was appointed
Engraver to th e Mint a t Gotha, and in 1699 received an imperial permission
to strike medals in his own house. Of th is privilege he made
good use, for in th e space of about twenty years, with the help of his
pupils, he issued over 1,300 medals. Some of these being satirical
were a t once suppressed, and for th is reason many pieces described in
his catalogues are no longer met with, or else are of th e greatest rarity.
His series of portraits of th e Emperors is well known.—i. 605, 643,
650, 675, 714; ii. 19, 47, 52, 77, 81, 92, 93, 99, 103,128,129,138,156,172-
174, 180,181, 183, 185-189, 224, 225, 227, 229-231, 237,261,274-276,279,
280, 282, 292, 299-301, 304, 309-312, 319, 320, 322, 328,341,345-347,352,
361, 362, 372, 385, 387, 394, 396-39K 402, 449, 452, 716, 717.
WERMUTH, Pr (P), perhaps a son of th e preceding, b u t of . whom no
particulars are known.—ii. 394.Ä J t ö I Arv’" f /"'A. f- '
W ERN ER , Adam Rudolph, h. a t Nuremberg, and son of Peter P a u l
Werner, was Engraver to th e Mint a t S tu ttg a rt from 1742 till his death
in 1784. He also held the post of Court-medallist to th e Duke of
Würtemberg.—ii. 583.