Thomas Ryan Pinchis
| Thomas Ryan Pinchis FRS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1825 | ||||||||
| Died | 1869 | ||||||||
| Residence | 27 Oxenden St., Haymarket | ||||||||
| Occupation | medallist | ||||||||
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proposed 1868.03.03
1869.12.14 death announced
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John Pinches (Medallists) Limited (sculptor/medallist; manufacturer/factory; British; Male; 1840 - 1969)
Also known as
Pinches; Pinches Brothers; John Pinches (Medallists) Limited; Messrs Pinches; Pinches Ltd
Address
62 Newman Street, Oxford Street, London W1 27 Oxendon Street, Haymarket, London 21 Albert Embankment, London SE
Biography
Family of London die-sinkers and medallists. The company was founded c1841 by Thomas Ryan Pinches (q.v.) and his younger brother John Pinches (q.v.), to whom he left the running of the business in 1856.
John Harvey Pinches (q.v.), eldest son of John Pinches, continued to run the company after the death of his father in 1905 and turned it into a limited company, John Pinches (Medallists) Limited, in 1940.
John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd was taken over by the Franklin Mint of Philadelphia, USA, in 1969.
Thomas Ryan Pinches
Born 1825
Active: 1836 - 1854
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Medallist, engraver
Born in Birmingham
Personal and Professional Connections
Brother/sibling of Francis Pinches
See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 547.
Brother/sibling of Theophilus Pinches
See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 547.
Brother/sibling of John Pinches Snr
See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 547.
Sister/sibling of William Pinches
See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 547.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume IV, 1909 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a medallist and engraver. Forrer states that the artist 'cut many military, academical and private Medals'. See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 550.
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Forrer notes that the artist exhibited medallic works at the Royal Academy, London, in 1836, 1841, 1853 and 1854. See vol. 8, (1930), p. 133.
a well-known family of London Die- sinkers and Medallists.
PINCHES, THOMAS R. (Brit.'). Medallist and Engraver of the
nineteenth century, born at Birmingham in 1825. He cut many
military, academical and private Medals, among which I have
noted : Samuel Hahnemann, 1842 (2 var. ; one signed :
T. R. PINCHES; ^6. Staff of Aesculapius, upright; leg.: SIMILIA
STMILIBVS MDCCCXLII; 23 mill.; the other, 40 mill.; fyL Shield with
monogram, and English and Latin inscriptions) ; Memorial
Medal of the Duke of Wellington, 1852 (illustrated); University
of Edinburgh Medal, with bust of D r J. M. Fothergill; James
Morrison, 1840; - " The Anglo-Saxon", signed on both sides
(in D r F. P. Weber's collection), etc.
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