List of medallists


A medallist or medalist is an artist who designs medals, plaquettes, badges, coins and similar small works in relief in metal. Art medals are a well-known and highly collected form of small bronze sculpture, most often in bronze, and are considered a form of exonumia. "Medalist/medallist" is confusingly the same word used in sport and other areas for the winner of a medal as an award. Medallists very often also design, or produce the dies for coins as well. In modern times medallists are mostly primarily sculptors of larger works, but in the past the number of medals and coins produced were sufficient to allow specialists who spent most of their career producing them. Medallists are also often confusingly referred to as "engravers" in reference works, referring to the "engraving" of dies, although this is often in fact not the technique used; however many also worked in engraving the technique in printmaking.
Art medals have been produced since the late Renaissance period, and, after some classical precedents and Late Medieval revivals, the form was essentially invented by Pisanello, who is credited with the first portrait medal, which has remained a very popular type. He cast them like bronze sculptures, rather than minting them like coins.

By nationality

An incomplete list, biased towards the 19th-century onwards; see also :Category:Medallists.

Argentinian

Australian

Austrian

Belgian

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Bermudian

  • Eldon Trimingham III

British

Bulgarian

Canadian

Costa Rican

  • Juan (Johann) Barth. Signature J.B.

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dominican Republic

  • Juan Medina

Dutch

Estonian

Finnish

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French

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*

German

Greek

Hungarian

Irish

Israeli

Italian

Japanese

Latvian

Lebanese

  • Paul Koroleff

Lithuanian

Luxembourg

Monégasque

  • Pierre Lovy

New Zealand

Norwegian

Peruvian

  • Robert Henry Britten

Polish

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Portuguese

  • Luís Filipe de Abreu
  • Caetano Alberto Nunes de Almeida
  • José Simões de Almeida (sobrinho)
  • Leopoldo de Almeida
  • Venâncio Pedro de Macedo Alves
  • Pedro Anjos Teixeira
  • José Manuel Aurélio
  • Rogério dos Santos Azevedo
  • Salvador Carvão da Silva d'Eça Barata Feyo
  • Maria Barreira
  • Baltazar Manuel Bastos
  • Gustavo Bastos
  • Hélder Batista
  • Avelino António Soares Belo
  • João Paulo Póvoas Bento d'Almeida
  • Numídico Bessone Borges de Medeiros Amorim
  • João José Braga
  • Fernando Branco
  • Álvaro João Vela de Brée
  • José Maria Cabral Antunes
  • Frederico Augusto de Campos. Signature: F. A. C.
  • Domingos António Cândido
  • José Cândido
  • Isabel Carriço
  • Cassiano Augusto Vidal da Maia
  • Dorita de Castel-Branco
  • Luís dos Santos Castro Lobo
  • João Charters de Almeida
  • Jorge Coelho
  • Vasco Pereira da Conceição
  • Fernando Conduto
  • Joaquim Correia
  • Hélio Costa
  • Tomás Costa (medallist)
  • Vasco Gonçalves Costa (aka Vago)
  • Rui Cunha
  • João Cutileiro
  • Carlos Diniz
  • Paulo Guilherme Ribeiro Dúlio Thomas d'Eça Leal
  • José Farinha
  • Paulo Ferreira
  • Manuel Carvalho Figueira
  • Francisco Xavier de Figueiredo
  • João de Figueiredo
  • João Fragoso
  • Francisco Franco
  • José Franco
  • Francisco de Borja Freire
  • C. Gama
  • António Lagoa-Henriques
  • Manuel Inácio
  • Aureliano Lima
  • Casimiro José de Lima
  • António Lino
  • Raul Sousa Machado
  • Manuel da Silva Lúcio
  • António Marinho
  • Amaro Marques
  • Joaquim Martins Correia
  • Armando Matos Simões
  • Clara Menéres
  • Paulo Aureliano Mengin
  • Pedro António Mengin
  • José Arnaldo Nogueira Molarinho
  • Cipriano da Silva Moreira
  • José de Moura
  • Manuel da Silva Nogueira
  • Marcelino Norte de Almeida
  • António José Oliveira
  • João Oom
  • António Paiva
  • Luís Gonzaga Pereira
  • Feliciano Avelino Peres
  • Rosa Ramalho
  • Ramos de Abreu
  • Manuel de Morais Silva Ramos
  • Domingos Alves Cevens do Rêgo
  • Manuel Martins Ribeiro
  • Francisco dos Santos
  • Inácio Santos
  • José Laranjeira Santos
  • José Sérgio Carvalho e Silva
  • João da Silva
  • José de Sousa
  • Augusto Jorge Ulisses
  • José António do Vale
  • Euclides da Silva Vaz
  • Raul da Vaza
  • Domingos Venâncio
  • Jorge Ricardo da Conceição Vieira
  • Maria Irene Lima de Matos Vilar
  • Armindo Viseu pseudonym of
  • Raul Maria Xavier

Romanian

  • Ion Jalea
  • Constantin Kristescu
  • Démètre "Anastase" Anastasescu
  • Haralambie Ionescu

Russian

Serbian

  • Zlatara Majdanpek

Slovak

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South African

  • Willie Myburg
  • Thomas Sasseen
  • Coert Steynberg. Signature: C.L.S.
  • Jan van Zyl. Signature: J.v Z.

Spanish

Swedish

  • Lea Ahlborn
  • Signature: G
  • Ivar Viktor Johnsson
  • Arvid Karlsteen
  • Svante Kede
  • Olof Lidijn, Mint-master in Stockholm,
  • J. Erik Lindberg
  • , Father of Pehr Henrik Lundgren
  • Signature PHL
  • , Mint-master in Stockholm 1945 – 1961, signature: TS
  • C.C. Sporrong & Co., founded 1666 in Stockholm
  • Sebastian Tham, Mint-master in Stockholm 1855 – 1876, 1797 Forsvik, Sweden - 1876 Stockholm. Signature: S.T.
  • Benkt Ulvfot, Mint-master in Stockholm 1961 – 1988, 1923 Nyköping, Sweden - 2013 Norrtälje. Signature: U

Swiss

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Tongan

  • Dudley Moore Blakely Signature D B

United States

Mints specializing in art medals