James Barton Longacre (August 11, 1794, Delaware , PA - January 1, 1869) is an American portrait painter and coin engraver, from 1844 until the end of his life, the fourth chief engraver of the United States Mint .
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Biography
At the age of 12, he left his home and entered the bookstore as a student. After his artistic talent was noticed, he became a student of the engraver. He painted portraits of many prominent figures, including Senator John Calhoun of South Carolina . In 1827, a year after the founding of the National Academy of Design in New York, he was admitted to its honorary members [4] .
After the death of Christian Hobrecht in 1844, he was replaced as chief engraver at the Mint in Philadelphia . The Mint at that time was managed by director Robert Patterson and chief coinman Franklin Peale, with whom Longacre had a conflict after he, in response to an order from Congress, drafted a new gold dollar and double eagle . He could have been fired if it were not for the intercession of Treasury Secretary William Meredith [5] . Patterson and Peel resigned in the early 1850s, as a result of which the conflict was settled.
After the sudden death of Longacre on the first day of 1869, William Barber became his successor. Longacre's works are of rather high value, although sometimes he is criticized for the lack of artistic progress in the engraving of coins.
Some works
Cent with the image of an eagle, 1857
Two Cent Coin, 1865
Three-dollar coin, 1878
Cent with the image of an Indian, 1909
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians “L” / Longacre, James Barton Honorary 1827 (link not available) . Date of treatment July 1, 2015. Archived April 2, 2015.
- ↑ Breen, Walter (1988). Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of US and Colonial Coins. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-14207-6 , Seite 476.