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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PepperAnna, post: 4624775, member: 17332&quot;]I&#039;ve been doing some research on Georg(e) Bissinger, but really haven&#039;t found very much information and very few pictures of his cameos. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the standard info I have found:</p><p>&quot;Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Johan Georg Bissinger moved to Paris to set up his own workshop. He sold a portrait cameo to the Empress Eugénie in 1867, and proceeded to be very successful, winning a gold medal in the Paris Salon in 1877. He further exhibited at the Weltaustelling in Vienna in 1873, the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876, and most importantly the Exposition Universelle in 1878, where he won both a gold and a silver medal. He retired from engraving soon after 1883. Bissinger&#039;s most celebrated works included portraits of living and historical monarchs, most importantly Elizabeth I and Marie de Medici. Bissinger generally signed his works in cursive on the back, and many of his works are set in jewelled mounts from English workshops.&quot;</p><p>&quot;In Bissinger’s display at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878, he presented 112 gems, many taking their inspiration from Renaissiance cameos, coins and medallions from the Cabinet des Médailles. It is almost certain that Bissinger copied this likeness of Maria de Medici from a seventeenth century bronze medal created by Guillaume Dupré (1576-1643), an example of which can be found at the Detroit Institute of Arts (Accession No.: 79.43).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I have found several of his cameos at museums and sold through auction houses, but not many. I know he carved several Marie d Medici cameos, one of his father in law,&nbsp; and one of George Washington. He seems to have worked exclusively in stone. Does anyone know more about him or own one of his cameos?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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